ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,433, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).
"Memory system and method of managing encryption key" was invented by Taketoshi Suzuki (Setagaya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a nonvolatile memory and a controller. The controller includes a circuit element. At a first timing, the controller acquires first identification information from a characteristic of the circuit element. The controller generates, using the first identification information, an encryption key for data to be written to the nonvolatile memory. The controller acquires aging information of the...