ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,796, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to ShardSecure Inc. (New York).

"Method for automatic recovery using microshard data fragmentation" was invented by Christer Roslund (Tyreso, Sweden), Jesper Tohmo (Varmdo, Sweden), Anthony Whitehead (Njurunda, Sweden) and Zachary Link (Atlanta, Gabon).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for automatic recovery of a portion of source data, broken into a plurality of microshard data fragments, is described. The system and method include storing one data fragment in a first storage element of a first storage resource having a plurality of storage elements, creating and storing a duplica...