ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,448, issued on July 1, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Storage controller, storage system, and method of operating storage device" was invented by Moonchan Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jisoo Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Younsung Chu (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage system includes: a host configured to receive a software image and a first signature for the software image, the first signature being generated based on a first secret key, and generate, based on a second secret key, a second signature for the software image; and a storage device configured to...