ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,656, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).
"Remote replication with host encryption" was invented by Arieh Don (Newton, Mass.), Tomer Shachar (Omer, Israel), Maxim Balin (Gan-Yavne, Israel) and Yevgeni Gehtman (Modi'in, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Decrypting data at a first storage system that has been encrypted at a second, separate, storage system includes the first storage system requesting a key that decrypts the data from the second storage system, the second storage system determining if the first storage system is authorized for the key, the second storage system providing the ...