US Patent Issued to Google on Oct. 14 for "Internal storage in cloud disk to support encrypted hard drive and other stateful features" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,543, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Internal storage in cloud disk to support encrypted hard drive and other stateful features" was invented by Joseph Richey (Seattle), Michael Halcrow (Redmond, Wash.) and Sergey Karamov (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cloud implementation of a persisted storage device, such as a disk, is provided. The implementation supports a variety of features and protocols, in full analogy with a physical storage device such as a disk drive. The present disclosure provides for implementing standard eDrive protocols in the cloud by designing internal disk ...