US Patent Issued to VMware on Sept. 9 for "Generating independent encryption keys for storage objects" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,392, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Generating independent encryption keys for storage objects" was invented by Abhay Kumar Jain (Santa Clara, Calif.), Long Yang (Fremont, Calif.), Wenguang Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Chandrakanth Gadhiraju (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure generate independent encryption keys for objects (e.g., virtual machine disks (VMDKs)) without requiring the management of multiple keys. An encryption manager obtains a primary encryption key, an object identifier (ID) comprising a globally unique ID (GUID) for an object, a data salt...