US Patent Issued to CYBER CASTLE on Jan. 20 for "Effectively in-place encryption system for encrypting system/root/operating system (OS) partitions and user data partitions" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,137, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to CYBER CASTLE INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Effectively in-place encryption system for encrypting system/root/operating system (OS) partitions and user data partitions" was invented by Eric A. Murray (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are taught for encrypting one or more target partitions effectively "in-place". This effectively in-place encryption is extremely desirable when a root/OS partition (such as /, /usr, /bin, etc.) needs to be encrypted without having to manually back up its contents to another location where they may be exposed in plaintext form, encrypting a ne...