US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Data storage device and method for hiding tweak generation latency" (American, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,691, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Data storage device and method for hiding tweak generation latency" was invented by Rasmus Madsen (Skovlunde, Denmark), Mark Myran (Trabuco Canyon, Calif.), Lunkai Zhang (Portland, Ore.) and Martin Lueker-Boden (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decryption engine can decrypt encrypted data read from a physical address in a memory of a data storage device. To decrypt the data, the decryption engine can use a tweak value that is generated from a logical address associated with the physical address. To reduce latency, the tweak value can ...