US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on March 25 for "Commands splitting based on flat logical block address and security key" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,131, issued on March 25, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Commands splitting based on flat logical block address and security key" was invented by Amir Segev (Meiter, Israel) and Shay Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved automation can be achieved using command-parts. Rather than using a command to determine which key to use, command partitioning will generate a task-ID based on a key index table to determine what key to use. Based on the task-ID, an encryption engine (XTS) will know which key to use. The command is split into partitions with the same attributes. The amoun...