Workday Assigned Patent

Workday, Inc., Pleasanton, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,187,203) developed by Hamel, Bjorn, Dublin, CA, and Ruggiero, Jonathan David, Walnut Creek, CA, for a “secure storage encryption system“.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A system for secure storage of data includes a key database and a processor. The processor is configured to receive a request associated with securely storing data and encrypt the tenant service key using a tenant master key. The data is encrypted using the tenant service key. The processor is further configured to encrypt the tenant master key using a customer key and store encrypted tenant service key and encrypted tenant master key in the key database”.

The patent application was filed on August 30, 2016 (15/252,051).