ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,191, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON (New York).

"System and method for providing multiple key encryption" was invented by James Pecoraro (New York), Scott Ryan James (New York), Jakub Guzikowski (Wroclaw, Poland), Cezary Siewierski (Dublin) and Jason Niggel (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing multiple key encryption may generate a private key encryption key (KEK) and a corresponding public KEK in a trusted execution environment (TEE); provide the public KEK to a key generator; generate, by the key generator, a data encryption key (DEK) and encrypt the DEK with t...