US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Aug. 26 for "Zero-trust distributed data sharing" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,630, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Zero-trust distributed data sharing" was invented by Ramarathnam Venkatesan (Redmond, Wash.) and Michael James Zwilling (Bellevue, Wash.).

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. For example, a determination is made as to whether a user and/or the user's computing device attempting to access an encrypted resource has the necessary attributes to access the resource and/or is in a valid location in which the user is required to be to access the resource. The attributes and/o...