ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,093, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to QuSecure Inc (Petaluma, Calif.).

"QSL-data at rest" was invented by Christopher Cap (Bayville, N.J.) and Barry Van Hooser (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to allow a client to communicate with a server, specifically to conduct a key management service, in order to obtain encryption/decryption keys for data-at-rest, wherein the method comprises: causing the client to use Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data (AEAD) to encrypt data according to a moving target design and causing the client, at a later time, to use AEAD to check the integrity of the data and decr...