ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,129, issued on July 21, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Volatile key storage for data encryption" was invented by Tim Rausch (Issaquah, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a data storage system, stored data is secured using a key-based encryption algorithm. The disclosure provides mechanisms for increasing security of the stored data by storing a unique key used to encrypt and/or decrypt the data in a volatile key storage of a backplane, where power to the volatile key storage is routed through a connection that is closed when a corresponding data storage device is connected to the backplane and open when the...