US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Aug. 19 for "Decryption key generation and recovery" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,331, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Decryption key generation and recovery" was invented by Ramarathnam Venkatesan (Redmond, Wash.) and Nishanth Chandran (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decryption key is recovered that is utilized to decrypt an encrypted resource. One or more location attribute policy (LAP) servers determine whether a user attempting to access a resource has the necessary attributes to access the resource and is in a valid location in which the user is required to be to access the resource. The attributes and location are defined by a policy...