US Patent Issued to DELL PRODUCTS on Aug. 25 for "Secure and encrypted garbage collection in a chunk storage system" (Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Montana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,694, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Secure and encrypted garbage collection in a chunk storage system" was invented by Philippe Armangau (Kalispell, Mont.), Anton Rang (Houlton, Wis.), Peter Corbett (Lexington, Mass.) and Jason Goldschmidt (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can store a first encryption key for a first data chunk of a log filesystem in a first virtual chunk extent that comprises first virtual pointers that point to the first data chunk, wherein the first data chunk is encrypted with the first encryption key. The system can, based on performing garbage coll...