US Patent Issued to Dell Products on April 7 for "Cryptographic method to certify retention lock status for opaque data in a backup system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,082, issued on April 7, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Cryptographic method to certify retention lock status for opaque data in a backup system" was invented by Salil Dangi (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and Nitin Madan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The retention lock (RL) status for a backup file stored in a storage target is certified by obtaining the RL status and encrypting it using an encryption key process to create a certified RL status. This signs the RL status by the entity storing the backup file, rather than an application setting the retention lock. The certified RL status is provided a...