US Patent Issued to RackTop Systems on Feb. 4 for "Methods of and systems for virtual air-gapping network storage system" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,779, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to RackTop Systems Inc. (Fulton, Md.).

"Methods of and systems for virtual air-gapping network storage system" was invented by Eric Bednash (Fulton, Md.) and Jonathan Halstuch (Fulton, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of and system for virtual air-gapping of data in a network storage system. The method comprises creating a staging zone around a set of data within a global zone. The global zone is accessible over a network utilizing a network file system. The set of data is indexed generating a manifest containing metadata and a hash for each file within the set of data. The set of data an...