ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,668, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd (South Korea).

"Authentication mechanism for computational storage download program" was invented by Ilgu Hong (Santa Clara, Calif.), Changho Choi (San Jose, Calif.) and Mohammad Nasim Imtiaz Khan (Rancho Cordova, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to exchange and manage a key is provided. The method includes receiving, at a computational storage device (CSD), a user certificate (CAuser) that is generated based on a public key of a user (PUuser); extracting, at the CSD, the PUuser using a public key of the certificate authority (PUca); generating, at the ...