US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Feb. 10 for "End-to-end network encryption from customer on-premise network to customer virtual cloud network using customer-managed keys" (Virginia, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,526, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"End-to-end network encryption from customer on-premise network to customer virtual cloud network using customer-managed keys" was invented by Nachiketh Rao Potlapally (McLean, Va.), Pradeep Vincent (Bothell, Wash.) and Jagwinder Singh Brar (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For end-to-end encryption of a virtual cloud network, a VPN tunnel from a customer device is terminated at a host network headend device using encryption keys secured in hardware and managed by the customer. The network headend device can be a card in a bare-...