ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,586, issued on July 22, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Key version management in storage devices" was invented by Chaitanya Kavirayani (Karnataka, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of a storage device are provided for managing a key version used for encryption and decryption and processing host commands associated with sanitized and non-sanitized logical pages using cryptographic erase. A controller of the storage device updates, in response to a sanitize command, a current address offset associated with the KV from a first address offset to a second address offset without changing the KV. I...