Antique Books Assigned Patent

Antique Books, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA, has been assigned a patent (11720677) developed by Thibadeau, Sr., Robert H., Pittsburgh, PA, for “attached storage device for enhanced data and program protection.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Systems and methods for advanced data and program protection are provided. Some embodiments extend the data-at-rest protection naturally provided by some self-encrypting drives in order to provide additional assurances to data-in-motion and data-in-use in the host computer to which the attached storage device is attached. In some embodiments, this protection is available even if only intermittently attached, and it requires no software to be installed on the host machines because the software run on the host is run in the host off the attached storage drive itself”

The patent application was filed on 2018-05-11 (16/612479).