US Patent Issued to New Cloud Dynamics on April 7 for "Device and system for the secure storage of data in a distributed manner" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,487, issued on April 7, was assigned to New Cloud Dynamics Pty Ltd. (Murrumbeena, Australia).

"Device and system for the secure storage of data in a distributed manner" was invented by Hector Elbaum (Murrumbeena, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network of storage devices for encrypting and storing data is provided. A first storage device of the network comprises: a mechanism or system for authenticating a user via user interaction directly with the first storage device, a mechanism for connecting over a local connection with one or more user devices, and computer-readable memory for storing electronic data on the first sto...