ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,566, issued on April 22, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Storage provisioning" was invented by Oliver Speks (Eschweiler, Germany), Raphael Quinet (Liege, Belgium), Nikolas Hermanns (Heinsberg, Germany) and Georg Kunz (Herzogenrath, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method performed by an encryption node for provisioning storage in a system. The encryption node is associated with an application node and the application node is configured to run at least part of one or more applications. In response to an unencrypted storage volume becoming available to the encryption node fr...