US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 8 for "Crypto-erasure of data stored in a key per IO-enabled device via internal action" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,451, issued on April 8, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Crypto-erasure of data stored in a key per IO-enabled device via internal action" was invented by Glen Alan Jaquette (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Device-implemented methodology for enabling and/or performing crypto-erase via internal action and/or external action in a Key per IO-enabled system. In various approaches, crypto-erasure of the data stored in a Key per IO scheme is enabled by implementing an internal key, which is combined with an external key to generate a media encryption key, which is in turn used to encrypt/d...