US Patent Issued to Dell Products on July 7 for "Distributed data protection for physical security" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,371, issued on July 7, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Distributed data protection for physical security" was invented by Arun Murti (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Adam Brenner (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and Mark Malamut (Aliso Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Providing data protection by distributing backup data among a large plurality of distributed devices. A number of networked devices are deployed to protect data of a target device in the network. Each device of contains memory sufficient to store at least a portion of backed up data from the target device. Index information for backup data of the target...