ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,045, issued on Nov. 4, 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 a first storage provisioning node of a system for provisioning storage in the system. In response to a first request for an encrypted storage volume for an application node, transmission of a second request is initiated (20) towards a second storage provisioning node for an unencrypted storage v...