ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,611, issued on May 19, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"System and method for secure key management for encrypted core dump" was invented by Thejeswara Reddy Pocha (Bangalore, India), Tushar Vrind (Bangalore, India) and Venkata Raju Indukuri (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of a decryptor including receiving, from an encryptor of an electronic device, a core dump that has been encrypted with a symmetric key generated by the encryptor, and core dump metadata, extracting crash metadata from the core dump metadata, transmitting the crash metadata to a remote key server for re...