US Patent Issued to Dell Products on May 13 for "Bit level sharding of sensitive data for increased security" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,919, issued on May 13, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Bit level sharding of sensitive data for increased security" was invented by Thomas L. Watson (Richardson, Texas), Yevgeni Gehtman (Modi'in, Israel), Tomer Shachar (Beer-Sheva, Israel), Maxim Balin (Gan-Yavne, Israel) and Arieh Don (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for obfuscating and/or de-obfuscating data using bit-level shard masks are disclosed. Shard masks are generated. The shard masks are designed to shard a block of data into a number of shards for distribution and storage among a number of storage arrays. The shard masks shar...