US Patent Issued to Marvell Asia on Sept. 15 for "Device and method with controlled use of keys in key slots of hardware security module (HSM) key vault" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,503, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"Device and method with controlled use of keys in key slots of hardware security module (HSM) key vault" was invented by Dmytro Razinkov (Karlsruhe, Germany), Tong Liu (Northborough, Mass.) and Minda Zhang (Westford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and corresponding method control use of keys in key slots of a Hardware Security Module (HSM) key vault. The device comprises the HSM key vault and a HSM. The HSM stores a key for use in a cryptographic operation and slot key-information of the key in a key slot of the key slots. The slot key-informat...