ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,723, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).
"Distributed secret management" was invented by Dmitry Basavin (Seattle), Aaron S. Joyner (Granite Falls, N.C.) and Kyle Leonhard (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data platform provides for encryption of secrets. During operation, an application of the data platform receives a secret and communicates the secret to an encryption client of the data platform. The encryption client generates an encrypted secret using a Data Encryption Key (DEK) and the secret. The encryption client communicates the DEK to an encryption server of the data platform while retain...