US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Aug. 11 for "Using ownership identifiers in metadata in a memory for protecting encrypted data stored in the memory" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,314, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Using ownership identifiers in metadata in a memory for protecting encrypted data stored in the memory" was invented by David Kaplan (Austin, Texas) and Kedarnath Balakrishnan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a memory and controller circuitry. The controller circuitry, responsive to a read request to read encrypted data stored in the memory, acquires, from metadata stored with the encrypted data in the memory, an ownership identifier identifying a type of writing entity that stored the encrypted da...