Cigent Technology Assigned Patent

Cigent Technology, Inc., Fort Myers, FL, has been assigned a patent (11,106,779) developed by Fessel, Tony Edward, Fort Myers, FL, for “method and system for improved data control and access.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method for backing up data includes: receiving, by a driver in a host controller of a data storage device, an indication of a threatening event identifying one or more data files in the data storage device, delaying, by the driver, the threatening event, and backing up, by the driver, the one or more data files in the data storage device, prior to allowing the threatening event.”

The patent application was filed on August 26, 2019 (16/550,426).