US Patent Issued to Lucasfilm Entertainment on Sept. 22 for "Centrally managed remote storage encryption and decryption" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,763, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Lucasfilm Entertainment Co. Ltd. LLC.

"Centrally managed remote storage encryption and decryption" was invented by Francis Aitken (Nicasio, Calif.), Stephen Morris (San Francisco), Ryan Justin Frias (Vacaville, Calif.) and Scott Levine (San Anselmo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for centrally managing remote storage encryption and decryption. In some embodiments, to access an encrypted volume on a storage device connected to a computing device, a virtual private network (VPN) client authenticates a user of the computing device to a VPN. After authenticating th...