Pryon Assigned Patent

Pryon Inc., Raleigh, NC, has been assigned a patent (11,388,236) developed by Seltzer, Chris Timothy, Bessemer, PA, and Jablokov, Igor, Raleigh, NC, for a “distributed cloud file storage.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Distributed cloud-based data storage divides a file for storage into a number of portions that are separately stored with two or more storage service providers. The division and/or transmission of the file may be implemented based on arbitrary criteria, including random selection, an applied storage policy or assignment of a given portion to a corresponding storage service provider as examples. One or more portions of the file may be assembled into an upload file that is transmitted to and received from a storage provider. The portions of the file received from the storage provider may be used to reconstruct the file.”

The patent application was filed on September 1, 2021 (17/463,795).