ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,261, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to INNODISK Corp. (New Taipei, Taiwan).
"Method, system, and storage medium to safeguard files from unauthorized copying" was invented by Chao-Hung Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Chung-Yi Lai (New Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preventing a file to be protected, from being copied includes the steps of executing a prevention of replication application on a host to enable or disable a setting program, processing the file to be protected, and defining a supplementary protective zone after processing the file to be protected. The prevention of replication application of the ...