US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 13 for "Protection for restricted actions on critical resources" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,159, issued on May 13, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Protection for restricted actions on critical resources" was invented by Anuj Dhawan (Redmond, Wash.), Brijesh Bhupendra Desai (Redmond, Wash.), Kameshwar Jayaraman (Redmond, Wash.), Ayla Kol (Sammamish, Wash.), Amit A. Bapat (Sammamish, Wash.), Qi Cao (Redmond, Wash.), Steven Jay Lieberman (Sammamish, Wash.), Ganesh Pandey (Redmond, Wash.) and Parul Manek (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for protecting restricted actions on encryption keys that control the management of data...