Quintessencelabs Assigned Patent

Quintessencelabs Pty Ltd., Deakin, Australia, has been assigned a patent (10,102,383) developed by Sharma, Vikram, and Leiseboer, John, Acton, Australia, for a “permanently erasing mechanism for encryption information.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A system for protecting data includes a virtual zeroisation device which receives data to be encrypted and key material for encrypting the data. The key material is stored in a storage device. As the encryption unit encrypts the data using the key material, the encrypted data is stored in the storage device and overwrites the key material.”

The patent application was filed on August 16, 2012 (14/239,652).