US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Sept. 9 for "Techniques for tracking and securing sensitive data in distributed storage networks" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,741, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Techniques for tracking and securing sensitive data in distributed storage networks" was invented by Anil Gathala (San Jose, Calif.), Sandeep Kumar (Sammamish, Wash.), Chakravarthi Kalyana Valicherla (Redmond, Wash.), Shlomo Yehezkel (West Hills, Calif.) and Peter Ferrie (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for tracking sensitive data within a plurality of storage units, where storage units include block storage volume(s) and/or "snapshot(s)" representing values of every block of a block storage volume or device at a ...