US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Nov. 11 for "Storage device utilizing physically unclonable function (PUF) based secret sharing scheme for data encryption/decryption" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,412, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Stockholm).

"Storage device utilizing physically unclonable function (PUF) based secret sharing scheme 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 and is locked with the host by secret sharing. In one example, the storage device comprises a Physically Unclonable...