ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,096, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to XINSERE INC. (San Francisco).

"Highly distributed, cryptographic-based data storage method" was invented by Mark Turner (Altadena, Calif.), Jeremy A. Katz (Jenkintown, Pa.) and Joshua M. Katz (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Distributed Permissioned Data (DPD) network to securely store encrypted data by distributing multiple copies of data fragments in resilient nodes in the network. Data fragments are stored in multiple node chains in the network. Storing data in this distributed fashion offsets conditions where some nodes are not available because they are offline or unreachable. N...