US Patent Issued to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES on Dec. 9 for "Apparatus, methods, and computer programs for protecting sensitive data" (Polish, German, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,899, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus, methods, and computer programs for protecting sensitive data" was invented by Chaitanya Aggarwal (Munich), Saurabh Khare (Bangalore, India) and German Peinado Gomez (Warsaw, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method, computer program, and an apparatus for a network function service consumer, that causes the apparatus to perform: retrieving, from a first repository function, protected sensitive data; retrieving, from a second network function, at least one encrypted key; decrypting the retrieved at least one encrypted key u...