ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,007, issued on March 25, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd (Yokneam, Israel).
"Secure flash controller" was invented by Yuval Itkin (Zoran, Israel) and Nir Eilam (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device includes a non-volatile memory (NVM) interface and a processor. The NVM interface is to communicate with an NVM. The processor is to store in the NVM at least a Type-Length-Value (TLV) record including one or more encrypted fields and one or more non-encrypted fields, the non-encrypted fields including at least a validity indicator of the TLV record, to read the TLV record from the NVM, and to invalida...