US Patent Issued on Sept. 22 for "Key management in computer processors" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,382, issued on Sept. 22.

"Key management in computer processors" was invented by Steven Jeffrey Wallach (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to a computer system having a processor and a main memory storing scrambled data are described. The processor may have a secure zone configured to store keys and an unscrambled zone configured to operate on unscrambled data. The processor can convert the scrambled data into the unscrambled data in the unscrambled zone using the keys retrieved from the secure zone in response to execution of instructions configured to operate on the unscrambled data. A...