US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Dec. 2 for "Multi-tenant file-level encryption for index based database" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,122, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Multi-tenant file-level encryption for index based database" was invented by Shmuel Herman (Kirkland, Wash.), Bryan Pham (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Jim Battenberg (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Operations include: receiving a first request for a first dataset of a plurality of datasets stored in a particular database instance; obtaining an encrypted version of the first dataset; obtaining an encrypted version of the first DEK; requesting decryption of the encrypted version of the first DEK; receiving a decrypted version of the fi...