ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,391, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing system" was invented by Takeyuki Minamimoto (Urayasu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system encrypts a number by an authentication key to generate first reference data, transmits a result of an authentication process to the host when first encryption data and the first reference data match each other, encrypts or decrypts verification data with a verification key to generate processing data, and transmits the processing data to the host. The host encrypts the number with the authentication key to generate first encryption data, transmits the...