US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on May 5 for "Encrypted key management" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,791, issued on May 5, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Encrypted key management" was invented by David Hulton (Seattle) and Jeremy Chritz (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of systems and methods described herein provide for erasing an encrypted key used for data access to a non-volatile memory device. A memory controller may generate an encrypted key for data access to non-volatile memory devices; and, to provide security of data stored on the non-volatile memory devices, the memory controller may store the encrypted key in a local cache of the memory controller. The encrypted key may be erased res...