ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,593, issued on July 28, was assigned to VDURA Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Homomorphic encryption-enabled parallel file system" was invented by Christopher Girard (Sanford, Fla.) and Ian Davies (Longmont, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage system, for example, a parallel file system stores and processes encrypted data. The parallel file system receives a write request from a client device, to store data. The parallel file system determines a distribution map for storing the data and sends to the client device. A plurality of chunks of encrypted data encrypted using homomorphic encryption are received. The parallel file syste...