US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Jan. 13 for "Storage device authenticating host credential and utilizing physically unclonable function (PUF) for data encryption/decryption" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,163, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Storage device authenticating host credential and utilizing physically unclonable function (PUF) for data encryption/decryption" was invented by Niklas Lindskog (Lund, Sweden) and Hakan Englund (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed herein for protecting data in a storage device by encrypting or decrypting the data with a Data Encryption Key (DEK). The storage device is communicatively coupled to a host. In one example, the storage device receives a credential from the host and authenticates the credent...