US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 31 for "System and method for protecting data" (Idaho, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,483, issued on March 31, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"System and method for protecting data" was invented by Brett K. Dodds (Boise, Idaho), Terry M. Grunzke (Boise, Idaho) and Majid Anaraki Nemati (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for decoding encoded data. The encoded data includes core data and parity data. The parity data is based, at least in part, upon the core data. Decoding the encoded data may confirm the integrity of the encoded data. Decoding the encoded data includes: generating a failure mask based, at least in part, upon the encoded data. If ...