US Patent Issued to Pure Storage on Dec. 16 for "Securely storing secure packages in a storage network" (Illinois, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,060, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Securely storing secure packages in a storage network" was invented by Gary W. Grube (Barrington Hills, Ill.) and Timothy W. Markison (Mesa, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for execution by a computing device of a storage network includes appending at least a decode threshold number of encoded key slices of a set of encoded key slices to at least some encrypted data segments of a plurality of encrypted data segments to produce secure packages. The method further includes error encoding, in accordance with error encoding parameters, the sec...