ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,857, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Security First Innovations LLC (Ashburn, Va.).

"Secure data parser method and system" was invented by Mark S. O'Hare (Coto De Caza, Calif.), Rick L. Orsini (Flower Mound, Texas), Roger S. Davenport (Campbell, Texas) and Steven Winick (Roslyn Heights, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secure data parser is provided that may be integrated into any suitable system for securely storing and communicating data. The secure data parser parses data and then splits the data into multiple portions that are stored or communicated distinctly. Encryption of the original data, the portions of data, or both ...