ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,145, issued on May 5, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Storage-based secure communication with a physical cyber recover vault" was invented by Dennis J. Trulli Jr. (Hudson, Belgium) and Peter Callewaert (Eernegem, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage-based secure communication system enables communication between a production site and a cyber recovery vault on a data replication facility. A control file is created in a controller-based file system that is accessible to both the production site and the cyber recovery vault. A communication subtask at the production site writes heartbeat and control infor...