Yacov Yacobi Assigned Patent

Yacobi, Yacov, Mercer Island, WA, has been assigned a patent (8,996,863) developed by Yacobi, Yacov, Mercer Island, WA, for a “attribute-based access-controlled data-storage system.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”The current application is directed to computationally efficient attribute-based access control that can be used to secure access to stored information in a variety of different types of computational systems. Many of the currently disclosed computationally efficient implementations of attribute-based access control employ hybrid encryption methodologies in which both an attribute-based encryption or a similar, newly-disclosed policy-encryption method as well as a hierarchical-key-derivation method are used to encrypt payload keys that are employed, in turn, to encrypt data that is stored into, and retrieved from, various different types of computational data-storage systems.“

The patent application was filed on January 20, 2014 (14/159,377).