US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on Oct. 21 for "Distributed encryption management" (California, New York, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,041, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Distributed encryption management" was invented by John Carl Kennedy (Los Olivos, Calif.), Prasanna Kumar Malaiyandi (Santa Clara, Calif.), Martin Josef Pagel (Seattle), Karthik Raman (New York) and Jan Zila (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Customers of a software platform, such as a unified communications as a service platform, are enabled to control their own encryption keys used to encrypt and decrypt data from various communication services in the software platform. A key broker server is employed to map encryption and decryption requests...