US Patent Issued to SMART Modular Technologies on April 7 for "Verifying the authenticity of storage devices" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,815, issued on April 7, was assigned to SMART Modular Technologies Inc. (Newark, Calif.).

"Verifying the authenticity of storage devices" was invented by Victor Y. Tsai (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for a host system or a user to verify the authenticity of a storage device or a logical sub-unit (e.g., a partition) of the storage device are disclosed. A storage device stores one or more first secret keys and a host device stores one or more second keys. A respective first secret key and a respective second key are used in a verification process that verifies the authenticity of the storage device prior t...