ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,511, issued on March 24.

"Method of secure data storage and transfer" was invented by Patrick Scott Heller (Goshen, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of secure data transfer and storage using ae storage device storing encrypted information. The method uses a host that stores and transfers encrypted sensitive information and a customer that desires the information to be securely stored. The customer chooses a unique encryption code to encrypt sensitive information and uploads the information to a host. Then the host transfers the information to the storage device. Connections between the host and customer are intermittent ...