ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,144, issued on July 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).
"Methods and apparatus for offloading encryption" was invented by Sumanth Jannyavula Venkata (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include transferring data from a host to an encryption offload engine through an interconnect fabric, encrypting the data from the host at the encryption offload engine, and transferring the encrypted data from the encryption offload engine to a storage device through a peer-to-peer connection in the interconnect fabric. The method may further include transferring the encrypted data from the storage ...