US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on July 8 for "Drive cryptographic value management" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,567, issued on July 8, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Drive cryptographic value management" was invented by Eric John Bartlett (Chard, Great Britain), Dominic Tomkins (Alton, Great Britain), Miles Mulholland (Eastleigh, Great Britain) and Alex Dicks (Winchester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, and computer program product for managing a storage array in a storage system, the storage array comprising a first and second data blocks comprising: receiving a set of cryptographic values from the storage array, the set comprising a first value associated with the first da...