US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Dec. 23 for "Managing encryption keys per logical block on a persistent memory device" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,259, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Managing encryption keys per logical block on a persistent memory device" was invented by Walter Andrew Hubis (Westminster, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A command to perform a data operation at a memory device is received. The command includes an encryption key tag. A first key table is accessed from local memory. The first key table includes a first set of key entries corresponding to a first set of encryption keys. The first key table is searched to determine whether it includes an entry corresponding to the encryption key tag. Based on determin...