Lockheed Martin Assigned Patent

Lockheed Martin Corporation, Bethesda, MD, has been assigned a patent (9,311,506) developed by Riera, Michael F., Hialeah, FL, Herald, Jr., Thomas E., Oviedo, FL, and Rivas, Javier A., Orlando, FL, for a “storing and transmitting sensitive data.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method for storing and transmitting data across a computer network to one or more destinations is disclosed including storing source data on a secure data storage of a secondary device connected to a computing device. The computing device is configured to operate via an operating system and the secure data storage is adapted to receive input unilaterally from the computing device and store it as source data. Receiving one or more of routing, scheduling, and prioritization information for one or more destinations including other network-connected storage mediums or network-connected computing or peripheral devices, and transferring the source data from the secure data storage to the one or more destinations through a communications interface component connected to the computer network are also performed. The transferring is implemented via the secondary device while bypassing the central processor and in accordance with the one or more of routing, scheduling, and prioritization information.“

The patent application was filed on October 3, 2014 (14/506,597).