ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,763, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Encrypting data using non-repeating identifiers" was invented by Ethan L. Miller (Santa Cruz, Calif.), John Colgrove (Los Altos, Calif.), Mark L. McAuliffe (San Francisco), Naveen Neelakantam (Mountain View, Calif.), Marco Sanvido (Belmont, Calif.), Neil A. Vachharajani (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Taher Vohra (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Utilizing a non-repeating identifier to encrypt data, including: receiving a request to write data to a storage device; selecting a segment-offset pair where the data will be stored, where the selected...