McAfee Assigned Patent

McAfee, LLC, Santa Clara, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,628,334) developed by Ruiz Altamirano, Fernando, Beaverton, OR, and Lancioni, German, San Jose, CA, for “system and method to protect digital content on external storage.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”An adapter is configured to sit between an external storage device and another device configured to read and write to the external storage device. The adapter encrypts data written to the external storage device and decrypts data read from the external device. The adapter determines whether to allow reading from or writing to the external storage device responsive to instructions received from an authenticating device.”

The patent application was filed on December 29, 2017 (15/858,718).