ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,715, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Enablement and disablement of end-to-end efficient encryption with security chaining" was invented by Lejin Du (Kanata, Canada), Oleksandr Babiychuk (Ottawa), Alykhan Nathoo (Ottawa), John T. Fitzgerald (Falmouth, Mass.), Michael E. Specht (Conway, N.H.), Seema G. Pai (Shrewsbury, Mass.) and Joann J. Kent (Auburn, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Enabling End-to-End Efficient Encryption (E2EEE) with security chaining in an Information Handling System (IHS) network includes: a data source IHS writing metadata containing a key slot, in a trailer of a data ...