ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,641, issued on May 6, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information storage device and information storage system" was invented by Takeshi Ishihara (Yokohama, Japan) and Yoshihiro Ohba (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a distribution unit generates a set of first ciphertext fragments based on a first identifier specifying a storage destination of the first ciphertext and a constitution information specifying a constitution of the first ciphertext, generates a deformation command using a second key used for deforming the first ciphertext for at least one fragment belonging to the set of ...