Weka.IO Assigned Patent

Weka.IO Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel, has been assigned a patent (11507681) developed by Ben Dayan, Maor, Palmon, Omri, Zvibel, Liran, Arditti, Kanael, and Peleg, Ori, Tel Aviv, Israel, for an “encryption for a distributed filesystem.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A computing device comprising a frontend and a backend is operably coupled to a plurality of storage devices. The backend comprises a plurality of buckets. Each bucket is operable to build a failure-protected stipe that spans two or more of the plurality of the storage devices. The frontend is operable to encrypt data as it enters the plurality of storage devices and decrypt data as it leaves the plurality of storage devices.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-05-11 (17/317086).