US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Feb. 4 for "Storage device, method for generating key in storage device, and method for performing certification of storage device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,049, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Storage device, method for generating key in storage device, and method for performing certification of storage device" was invented by Mun Gyu Bae (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Ji Soo Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Hyun Soo Kwon (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Youn Sung Chu (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device having improved security reliability includes a non-volatile memory, and a storage controller configured to control an operation of the non-volatile memory, generate a key material, receive a key ide...