US Patent Issued to PURE STORAGE on Aug. 25 for "Optimized encryption key management by a group of storage systems" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,664, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Optimized encryption key management by a group of storage systems" was invented by Andrew Bernat (Mountain View, Calif.), Alexandre Duchateau (Bellevue, Wash.), Marco Sanvido (Belmont, Calif.), Constantine Sapuntzakis (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Kiron Vijayasankar (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Protecting an encryption key for data stored in a storage system that includes a plurality of storage devices, including: reading, from at least a majority of the storage devices, a portion of an apartment key; reconstructing the apartment key usin...