US Patent Issued to Dell Products on July 1 for "Systems and methods of supporting deduplication and compression of encrypted storage volumes" (Massachusetts, Washington, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,267, issued on July 1, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Systems and methods of supporting deduplication and compression of encrypted storage volumes" was invented by Charles W. Kaufman (Redmond, Wash.), Xuan Tang (Hopkinton, Mass.), George Papadopoulos (Franklin, Mass.), Vasu Subramanian (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Jamie Pocas (Milford, Mass.), Naizhong Chiu (Newton, Mass.) and Gregory W. Lazar (Upton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for providing increased support for deduplication and compression of encrypted storage volumes. The techniques include receiving, at a storage virtual machine (VM), a data e...