US Patent Issued to Dell Products on March 24 for "Cryptographic method to certify retention lock status for auditing in a backup system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,792, issued on March 24, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Cryptographic method to certify retention lock status for auditing 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 status for a backup file stored in a storage target of a deduplication backup is certified by obtaining the retention lock status and encrypting, in the storage target, the retention lock status information using an encryption key process to create a certified retention lock status. This signs retention lock status by the entity storin...