ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,361, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Encryption keys for management controllers" was invented by Joseph Wright (Tomball, Texas), Chris Davenport (Houston) and Robert L. Noonan (Crystal Lake, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a security apparatus includes a security processor to control access to an encryption key in a memory region protected by the security apparatus. The security apparatus further includes a memory region controller that receives a request for the encryption key from an encryption engine associated with a management controller, the re...