US Patent Issued to AirMettle on June 3 for "Partitioning, processing, and protecting media data" (Texas, Georgia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,474, issued on June 3, was assigned to AirMettle Inc. (Houston).

"Partitioning, processing, and protecting media data" was invented by Donpaul C. Stephens (Houston), Qiang Zhang (Bryan, Texas), Zhiying Gu (Berkeley, Calif.), Feilian Huang (Atlanta), Shiyao Shen (Atlanta) and Jiaxin Li (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for managing data objects in a storage cluster includes splitting a media data object into multiple portions at boundaries within the media data object. The technique further includes transforming the portions of the media data object into segments that provide individually processable units and distrib...