ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,961, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Use of 'type' encryption keys with key per IO-enabled devices" was invented by Glen Alan Jaquette (Tucson, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device-implemented method, in accordance with one aspect of the present invention, includes receiving a command having an address field of predefined length. A first subset of bits in the address field identify an external key of a particular tenant, and a second subset of the bits in the address field corresponds to one of a plurality of type keys associated with different data types. The extern...