iStorage Assigned Patent

iStorage Ltd., Middlesex, Great Britain, has been assigned a patent (11,233,653) developed by Michael, John, London, Great Britain, and Xu, Quan, Middlesex, Great Britain, for a “dongle for ciphering data.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A dongle for ciphering, receiving and transmitting data to and from an external device is provided. The dongle includes a user interface configured to receive authentication data to confirm an identity of a user. The dongle is disabled for ciphering data unless an authorised user is identified. A data transfer channel is configured to couple the dongle to the external device to receive and transmit user data between the dongle and the external device. A hardware encryption engine is configured to perform a ciphering transformation on user data received from the external device. The dongle is configured to perform a return transmission to return the user data that has been transformed to the external device via the data transfer channel in real-time using a single data transfer channel without storage of the user data on the dongle.”

The patent application was filed on filed: June 3, 2019 (16/429,286).