ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,072, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).
"Encrypted storage" was invented by Erich Wolfgang Gestacker McMillan (Spring, Texas), Baraneedharan Anbazhagan (Spring, Texas) and Tevin Jaupaul Richards (Spring, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example storage medium is described, wherein the storage medium comprises instructions that, when executed cause a processor of an electronic device to store a private key in a first memory of the electronic device. The controller also stores an encrypted version of a password and validity information defining a condition to the password's val...