ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,331, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Memory bus integrity and data encryption (IDE)" was invented by Raghunandan Makaram (Northborough, Mass.), Kirk S. Yap (Westborough, Mass.), Rajat Agarwal (Portland, Ore.), George Vergis (Portland, Ore.), Bill Nale (Livermore, Calif.) and Jacob Doweck (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory subsystem includes link encryption for the system memory data bus. The memory controller can provide encryption for data at rest and link protection. The memory controller can optionally provide link encryption. Thus, the system can provide link protection f...