US Patent Issued to Dell Products on March 17 for "Encryption technique rotation using input/output operations" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,879, issued on March 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Encryption technique rotation using input/output operations" was invented by Ophir Buchman (Raanana, Israel), Tomer Shachar (Beer Sheva, Israel) and Yevgeni Gehtman (Modi'in, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for encryption technique rotation using input/output (I/O) operations. One method comprises obtaining an I/O request to write designated data to a storage device, wherein at least some of the existing data stored by the storage device prior to the obtaining is protected using a first encryption technique associated with a...