Gapfruit Assigned Patent

Gapfruit AG, Zug, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (12340097) developed by Hussmann; Jan Siddartha, Lucerne, Switzerland, Thöni; Stefan, Steinhausen, Switzerland, Iten; Roman, Unterägeri, Switzerland, and Duss; Pirmin, Lucerne, Switzerland, for “storage module for storing a data file and providing its hash.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The application relates to a computing device comprising one or more processors and one or more memory devices having stored thereon computer readable instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computing device to establish a storage module for storing a data file. The storage module is configured to: load a data file from a data source into the storage module; compute a hash value of the data file loaded into the storage module and make said hash value available to a hash value consumer; grant read-only access to data consumer(s) for accessing said data file loaded into the storage module. The storage module is further configured to detect any change and/or attempted change of the data file and terminate all data consumers which have been granted access to the data file.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-07-13 (18/005335).