ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,151, issued on July 15, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Techniques for reducing security risks associated with shared storage" was invented by Christopher John Newburn (South Beloit, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, a proxy application processes requests to access a storage system. The proxy application receives a client request from a proxy driver executing on a client node. The client request is associated with a client buffer and a location within the storage system. The proxy application converts the client request to a proxy request that is associated with a proxy buffer and the sa...