US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 6 for "Dynamic key reassignment for memory encryption keys" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,553, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dynamic key reassignment for memory encryption keys" was invented by Patrick James Meaney (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Glenn David Gilda (Binghamton, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Dynamic key reassignment for memory encryption keys, including: performing a key reassignment for a memory area by, for each memory address of a plurality of memory addresses in the memory area: reading data from a selected memory address by decrypting the data using a first encryption key stored in a first encryption key register, wherein the selected memory addr...