ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,097, issued on June 24, was assigned to GAPFRUIT AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Storage module for storing a data file and providing its hash" was invented by Jan Siddartha Hussmann (Lucerne, Switzerland), Stefan Thoni (Steinhausen, Switzerland), Roman Iten (Unterageri, Switzerland) and Pirmin Duss (Lucerne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application relates to a computing device comprising one or more processors and one or more memory devices having stored thereon computer readable instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computing device to establish a storage module for storing a data fil...