US Patent Issued to HITACHI VANTARA on Feb. 17 for "System of io processing for storage control unit for encryption/decryption" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,896, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to HITACHI VANTARA LTD. (Yokohhama, Japan).

"System of io processing for storage control unit for encryption/decryption" was invented by Tatsuya Hirai (Tokyo), Takahiro Yamamoto (Tokyo) and Yoshinori Ohira (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing system includes a physical drive, a compute unit, and a storage control unit that processes a data input/output request from the compute unit, in which: the storage control unit includes an IO processing unit and an encryption/decryption-related processing unit; the encryption/decryption-related processing unit is capable of referri...