ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,739, issued on July 8, was assigned to Omnissa LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Distributed encryption" was invented by Suman Aluvala (Bangalore, India), Ramani Panchapakesan (Bangalore, India), Rajneesh Kesavan (Bangalore, India) and Arjun Kochhar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein include systems and methods for performing distributed encryption across multiple devices. An example method can include a first device discovering a second device that shares a network. The device can identify data to be sent to a server and calculate a checksum for that data. The device can then split the data into mu...