ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,436, issued on April 1.

"Data protection on distributed data storage (DDS) protection networks" was invented by Philip Lewander (Fox Point, Wis.) and Cameron Jungers (River Hills, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media of data protection on a distributed data storage (DDS) protection network using a distribution protocol. One method includes receiving a digital asset including a dataset and generating a plurality of data structures and a data object based on the dataset. The method further includes storing at least one of the plurality of data structures on a first network node of a ...