ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,475, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to HITACHI VANTARA LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Computer and data processing method" was invented by Nagamasa Mizushima (Tokyo), Yoshihiro Yoshii (Tokyo) and Naoya Okada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer includes a processor including a plurality of registers, a memory, and a storage medium. A processor of a computer is configured to execute an encryption process of generating encrypted user data including a plurality of encrypted data blocks using the plurality of registers, and add a DIF including CRC to the encrypted data blocks and store the result in a storage medium. The encrypt...