HyperBUNKER Granted US Patent for Hardware-Enforced Offline Data Vault

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted HyperBUNKER US Patent No. 19/290,836 for its Data Storage Security System – a fully offline, physically air-gapped backup vault engineered to survive total network compromise.The architecture is built around a simple premise: If it can’t connect, it can’t be compromised.

Designed by HyperBUNKER’s co-founder and CTO Imran Nino Eskic, the system enforces unidirectional data flow via optocouplers, rotates drives using PLC/Cortex timing, and maintains a power-disconnected, tamper-resistant vault for mission-critical data.

A Blueprint for offline resilience
Modern ransomware doesn’t just encrypt – it hunts credentials, pivots across infrastructure, and disables backups. In 2026, “having a backup” is not enough. If the backup is online, it’s vulnerable. HyperBUNKER’s system rewrites the recovery model with a physically unbreachable boundary.

Key innovations in the patented system

• Optical one way flow
  Data enters through one-way optocouplers. There’s no network, no reverse path, and no handshake to hijack
• PLC/CORTEX-Governed air gap
  An industrial programmable logic controller cycles offline drives in and out of power during narrow write windows. All logic is physically isolated
• Multi-Vault architecture
  At any given time, three out of four vault drives are powered down and unreachable – preserving generations of clean state

“This isn’t just secure storage – it’s a wall beyond reach,” said Imran Nino Eskic, CTO and co-founder, HyperBUNKER. “There’s no system daemon. No login shell. No interface to attack. It’s one-way in. Full stop.”

Why it matters
In a world of AI-driven, identity-targeting attacks, software no longer has the last word. The vault’s design assumes compromise – then makes recovery inevitable anyway.

• No dependency on credentials or policy
• No logical bypass
• Recovery of full file systems in hours, not days/weeks
• Compliant with NIS2, DORA, and modern insurance audit regimes

“When everything else fails – firewalls, credentials, backup software – this is what still works,” said Bostjan Kirm, CEO, HyperBUNKER. “This patent validates what our customers already know: if you’re not planning for failure, you’re planning to fail.”

All 19 claims of the patent were allowed after a full USPTO review – a strong signal of both novelty and precision. The system is now the IP-protected core of HyperBUNKER’s hardware product line.