ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,467, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NAVER CLOUD CORP (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Method and system for dynamic application of storage encryption" was invented by Takkyun Ko (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Jung Joon Yoon (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encryption setting application method may include acquiring a virtual machine image including a script that describes a hooking operation of a booting process and an encryption setting operation; hooking the booting process based on the hooking operation after booting of a virtual machine starts; applying an encryption setting to the virtual machine bas...