ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,401, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Key protection framework" was invented by Ramachandra Mahapatra (Bhanjanagar, India) and Venkata Ramana Murthy K (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A key protection framework for a platform includes a key protection engine for interfacing between an external key management system (KMS) and an external encryption service. A customer of the platform can select an existing external KMS and external encryption service to use with the framework. The key protection engine can onboard the external KMS with the platform by obtaining a configuration for the ext...