ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,364, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Selective encryption while loading from network attached storage system" was invented by Shailendra Moyal (Pune, India), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India) and Partho Ghosh (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for selective dataset encryption is provided. The embodiment may include identifying one or more data items within one or more datasets to be moved from network attached storage to cloud-based storage. The embodiment may also include deter...