Opswat Assigned Patent
Determining whether storage is encrypted
By Francis Pelletier | August 1, 2017 at 2:30 pmOpswat, Inc., San Francisco, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,697,367) developed by Czarny, Benjamin, San Francisco, CA, Mo, Jianpeng, Burlingame, CA, and Dynin, Boris, Menlo Park, CA, for a “determining whether a data storage is encrypted.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method, program and/or system reads first data through a first path from a location in a data storage. Second data is read through a second path from the same location in the data storage. The first data is compared to the second data. A match between the first data and the second data indicates that the first path did not encrypt the first data. A mismatch between the first data and the second data indicates that the first path encrypted the first data.“
The patent application was filed on October 17, 2016 (15/294,861).