US Patent Issued to DELL PRODUCTS on March 17 for "Storing sensitive data securely in a multi-cloud environment" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,877, issued on March 17, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Storing sensitive data securely in a multi-cloud environment" was invented by Vinay Sawal (Fremont, Calif.), Ching-Yun Chao (Austin, Texas) and Anil Varkhedi (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Using reversible coding (e.g., linear network coding) to encode and partition sensitive data before storing the different encoded partitions in a distributed manner among different public cloud providers' storage systems is disclosed. The sensitive data is normally encrypted when first received, whereby the initial security is increased via the use of...