US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 18 for "Providing secure data storage and management" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,991, issued on March 18, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Providing secure data storage and management" was invented by Peng Hui Jiang (Beijing), Xi Qing Zhang (Beijing), Ming Zhe Jiang (Beijing), Mu Chen (Beijing) and Chun Ling Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer technology for combining an encryption/decryption (e/d) key with additional information to obtain a specialized e/d key. The additional information one or more of the following types of additional information: client UUID (universally unique identifier), FQDN (fully qualified domain name), database hardware information,...