ZeroDB Assigned Patent

ZeroDB, Inc., Santa Clara, CA , has been assigned a patent (10,691,817) developed by Egorov, Mikhail, Santa Clara, CA, Wilkison, MacLane Scott, Mountain View, CA, Nu{grave over (n)}ez, David, Santa Clara, CA, and Agudo, Isaac, Malaga, Spain, for “encryption for distributed storage and processing.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Provided is a process of securing data in a distributed storage and processing application, the process including: obtaining a cluster of computing nodes, wherein: the cluster stores a plurality of ciphertexts, accessing a transformation key with a first computing node, transforming the ciphertext with the first computing node based on the transformation key into a transformed ciphertext configured to be decrypted with a temporary access key, decrypting the transformed ciphertext with the second computing node based on the temporary access key to obtain plaintext data.”

The patent application was filed on May 6, 2017 (15/588,614).