McAfee Assigned Patent

McAfee, LLC, Santa Clara, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,360,398) developed by Kabra, Atul, New Delhi, India, Hughes, Michael, San Francisco, CA, and Teddy, John, Portland, OR, for a “secure disk access control.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A request is received from a security tool, the request relating to an event involving data records in a storage device. An application programming interface, (API) is used to interface with secure storage functionality of the storage device, the secure storage functionality enabling a set of secure storage operations. A security operation is caused to be performed at the storage device involving the data records based at least in part on the request. In one aspect, the set of secure storage operations can include a direct read operation, a direct write operation, a copy-on-write operation, and a save-attempted-write operation.”

The patent application was filed on June 6, 2017 (15/614,836).