ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,559, issued on July 29, was assigned to Menlo Security Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Secure archive explorer" was invented by Stephen John Stanley Thornhill (Chalfont St. Giles, Great Britain), Michael Leslie Gardner (Bristol, Great Britain), Todd Ignasiak (Mountain View, Calif.) and David Jonathan Lee (Reading, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secure archive explorer is disclosed. A determination is made that a user has selected, from an interface, an archive comprising at least one file. A determination is made that at least one of the selected archive or a subcomponent of the archive is encrypted. In response to det...