ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,193, issued on March 18, was assigned to SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Storage compute services for encrypted data" was invented by Ramanathan Muthiah (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of a storage device are provided that perform partial decryption of host encrypted data and encryption of host provided data using received or generated keys for data targeted for compute services. The storage device may include a non-volatile memory and a controller. The controller may receive encrypted data, receive a key associated with a portion of the encrypted data, and decrypt the portion of the encrypted...