ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,989, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Management Services Group Inc. (Virginia Beach, Va.).

"Methods and apparatus for authenticating an encryption key stored in removable memory devices, to access a compute device" was invented by Thomas Scott Morgan (Virginia Beach, Va.), Martin Mayer (Bartlesville, Okla.) and Steven Yates (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a method can include detecting, at a first circuit, the first circuit being operatively coupled to a memory device having a set of memory portions. The method can include receiving, from the memory device and at the first circuit, a set o...