US Patent Issued to THE PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA on April 15 for "System for improving data security through key management" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,249, issued on April 15, was assigned to THE PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA (Newark, N.J.).

"System for improving data security through key management" was invented by Venkatesh Sarvottamrao Apsingekar (San Jose, Calif.), Sahil Vinod Motadoo (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Christopher John Schille (San Jose, Calif.) and James Francis Lavine (Corte Madera, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system protects personally identifiable information (PII) by implementing an unconventional key management scheme. In this scheme, the system uses a set of keys rather than an individual key for encrypting PII. Different portions of the PII are e...