ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,118, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Memory management with implicit identification of cryptographic keys using error correction data" was invented by Larrie Carr (Kelowna, Canada) and Sanjay Goyal (Roseville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed systems and techniques involve storage of encrypted data in memory pages that may include units stored with different cryptographic keys. Data may be stored with error correction data that implicitly encodes an identification of a key (key selector) without additional memory being allocated to explicit storage of the key selector. During data ...