FMR Assigned Patent

FMR LLC, Boston, MA, has been assigned a patent (10,044,509) developed by Kirshner, Jake, Salt Lake City, UT, for a “method for encrypting and storing data.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Systems and methods for securely uploading a data file are presented. A client generates a symmetric encryption key and an initialization vector, encrypts the data file using the symmetric encryption key and the initialization vector, places an upload request with a server to upload the encrypted data file to a first storage device, receives from the server via the communications network, asymmetric encryption components, a signed data file upload URL accessible by the communications network, and a signed key data upload URL accessible by the communications network, encrypts, using the asymmetric encryption components, the symmetric encryption key and the initialization vector, thereby creating encrypted key information, sends, via the signed data file upload URL, the encrypted data file to the first storage device, and sends, via the signed key data upload URL, the encrypted key information to a second storage device.”

The patent application was filed on August 14, 2017 (15/676,673).