US Patent Issued to Charter Communications Operating on April 7 for "Secure cloaking of data" (New York, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,820, issued on April 7, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Secure cloaking of data" was invented by James Anderson Blackley (Rockville Center, N.Y.), Jay Eric Carlson (St. Charles, Mo.), Michael David Hanrahan (Chesterfield, Mo.), Bajeed Pattan (Ballwin, Mo.) and Christopher Scott Alcott (Town and Country, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for providing secure data storage, a user selection of a plurality of cloaking sequences is received. The cloaking sequences include at least a first and second cloaking sequence. The method also includes cloaking data (e.g., one or more files). Cloaking...