ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,042, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Memory buffer devices with modal encryption" was invented by Evan Lawrence Erickson (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Michael Alexander Hamburg ('s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands), Helena Handschuh (Miami) and Mark Evan Marson (Carlsbad, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies for modal encryption are described. One memory buffer device includes a compression block and an in-line memory encryption (IME) block. The compression block can output compressed data. The IME block can encrypt uncompressed data at a first granularity and encrypt the compressed data at a seco...