US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on May 26 for "Storage device having an RPMB reset function and RPMB management method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,478, issued on May 26, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device having an RPMB reset function and RPMB management method thereof" was invented by Jimin Ryu (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yonghwan Song (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaegyu Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dong-Min Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Byungjune Song (Suwon-si, South Korea), Myeongjong Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Daejin Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing a replay protection memory block (RPMB) of a storage device includes allocating an RPMB master region managed separately from an RPM...