ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,335, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Coordinating data access among multiple services" was invented by Saikrishna Badrinarayanan (Fremont, Calif.), Guangyu Chen (Los Angeles), Samarth Chopra (Santa Monica, Calif.), Apoorvaa Deshpande (Mountain View, Calif.), Hooman Javaheri (Los Alamitos, Calif.), Muhammad Naveed (Pasadena, Calif.), Antonios Papadimitriou (Los Angeles), Sina Shiehian (Berkeley, Calif.), Bahador Yeganeh (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Di Zhuang (West Covina, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for managing access to encrypted data and encryption keys...