US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 14 for "Unlock and recovery for encrypted devices" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,699, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Unlock and recovery for encrypted devices" was invented by Yogesh A. Mehta (Redmond, Wash.), Octavian T. Ureche (Bellevue, Wash.), Scott R. Shell (Kirkland, Wash.), Innokentiy Basmov (Redmond, Wash.), Peter Novotney (Seattle) and Christopher L. Walstad (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device can perform operations to unlock encrypted volumes of the computing device while the computing device is in a recovery environment. In some examples, the computing device can work in conjunction with a test computing device to unlock t...