US Patent Issued to Commvault Systems on May 19 for "Automatic file encryption" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,581, issued on May 19, was assigned to Commvault Systems Inc. (Tinton Falls, N.J.).

"Automatic file encryption" was invented by Andrei Erofeev (Marlboro, N.J.) and Rahul S. Pawar (Marlboro, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatically encrypting files is disclosed. In some cases, the method may be performed by computer hardware comprising one or more processors. The method can include detecting access to a first file, which may be stored in a primary storage system. Further, the method can include determining whether the access comprises a write access. In response to determining that the access comprises a write acc...