ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,690, issued on Jan. 27.

"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. Some methods include identifying, by one or more processing circuits, a request associated with a digital asset. Some methods further include generating, by the one or more processing circuits, a new data object associated with the request. Some methods further incl...