ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,048, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Computing systems and methods providing segmented encryption" was invented by Maxim Balin (Gan-Yavne, Israel), Roman Bober (Ashdod, Israel) and Doron Bokobza (Beer Sheva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods support segmenting and encrypting a data object. For instance, a computing system may segmented data object into multiple chunks and then encrypt each of the chunks according to pseudo-randomly selected encryption algorithms. A result is that the data object has been split into multiple encrypted chunks, where the encrypted chunks ha...