Cleversafe Granted Four Patents By USPTO

Cleversafe Inc. announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted and issued four new patents to the company, further solidifying Cleversafe’s IP portfolio around its Dispersed Storage technology.

"We’ve been solving the world’s growing problem of how to store information at the petabyte level and beyond for a number of years already," said Chris Gladwin, CEO and president of Cleversafe, Inc. "The industry is just now catching on that traditional solutions can’t scale effectively to store the massive amounts of data being generated in today’s enterprise environments. Our innovation is a true leadership advantage and we’ll continue to develop our technology to meet the ever-growing demands of ‘Big Data’ and to keep us well ahead of the curve."

Cleversafe continues to be one of the most patenting U.S. companies per employee with nine issued patents presently and approaching 150 published utility patents pending.

Cleversafe’s newly issued U.S. patents are:

• U.S. patent number 7,953,937, issued May 31, 2011, and entitled, Systems, Methods, and Apparatus for Subdividing Data for Storage in a Dispersed Data Storage Grid
• U.S. patent number 7,953,771, issued May 31, 2011, and entitled, Virtualized Storage Vaults on a Dispersed Data Storage Network
• U.S. patent number 7,962,641, issued June 14, 2011, and entitled, Streaming Media Software Interface to a Dispersed Data Storage Network
• U.S. patent number 8,019,960 issued September 13, 2011 and entitled, Metadata Management System for an Information Dispersed Storage System