ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,770, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Gurulogic Microsystems Oy (Turku, Finland).

"System and method for providing protected data storage in data memory" was invented by Tuomas Karkkainen (Turku, Finland) and Jouni Laine (Turku, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing protected data storage in a data memory of a computing device has an encoder and a decoder. The encoder encrypts unencrypted data using encryption information to generate encrypted data, and stores the encrypted data and the encryption information in an allocated portion of the data memory. The decoder accesses the encrypted data and the encrypti...