US Patent Issued to EMC IP Holding on June 2 for "Zero-knowledge protection for side channels in data protection to the cloud" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,815, issued on June 2, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Zero-knowledge protection for side channels in data protection to the cloud" was invented by Amos Zamir (Beer Sheva, Israel), Jehuda Shemer (Kfar Saba, Israel) and Kfir Wolfson (Beer Sheva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Masking a data rate of transmitted data is disclosed. As data is transmitted from a production site to a secondary site, the data rate is masked. Masking the data rate can include transmitting at a fixed rate, a random rate, or an adaptive rate. Each mode of data transmission masks or obscures the actual data rate and thus preven...