ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,941, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Activision Publishing Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Distributed data storage system providing enhanced security" was invented by Philippe Louis Yves Paquet (Beverly Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In computer-implemented methods and systems for secure storage and transmission of data in a distributed network environment, each piece of data is transformed in to multiple pieces of metadata for transmission and storage. Each piece of metadata is transmitted and stored on a different server, which is selected from separate pools of servers."

The patent was filed on Jan. 7, 2025, under...