ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,597, issued on March 24, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Memory with write address delay circuit" was invented by Lunkai Zhang (Portland, Ore.), Rasmus Madsen (Skovlunde, Denmark) and Martin Lueker-Boden (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes control circuits configured to connect to a memory structure. The control circuits are configured to receive a write request that includes a logical address with write data corresponding to the logical address, encrypt the write data to obtain encrypted write data and map the logical address to a physical address in the memory struct...