US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Aug. 11 for "Effective key management for data encryption and decryption" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,977, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Effective key management for data encryption and decryption" was invented by Shay Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Modifying support security parameters without stalling data transfer rather than stalling the data transfer when support security modification requests are received is an effective key management operation for data encryption and decryption. For example, incorporating multiple security partition slots in the device controller. Each slot holds security parameters and an IO counter that holds the current number ...