ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,579, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NantCell Inc. (Culver City, Calif.).

"Object storage and access management systems and methods" was invented by Aaron Randolph Bassett (Laconia, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A geographically distributed erasure coding system includes multiple computer readable, non-transitory storage memories capable of storing a digital dataset including multiple object blocks, where each storage memory is configured to store one or more of the object blocks of the dataset according to an erasure coding policy. The system includes one or more processors configured to implement the erasure coding policy ...