US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Sept. 9 for "Dynamic cryptographic key management for cached data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,406, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Dynamic cryptographic key management for cached data" was invented by Niharika Avasarala (Cupertino, Calif.), Mahadev Karadigudda (San Jose, Calif.), Nitin Madan (Cupertino, Calif.) and Madhu Agrahara Gopalakrishna (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a cryptographic key management system for cached data that abstracts key management details from the cache tier to the active tier and encryption process by encrypting data from the active tier using an encryption process employing an encryption key to generate an encrypted data blo...