ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,408, issued on May 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Ephemeral data storage" was invented by Wade Benson (San Jose, Calif.), Anthony J. Chivetta (San Francisco) and D. J. Capelis (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to securely storing data in a computing system. In some embodiments, a computing system performs a boot sequence that includes generating ephemeral key data and preventing the generated ephemeral key data from being stored in a non-volatile storage including persisting the generated ephemeral key data in the volatile storage. The boot sequence further includes ...