ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,394, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to XILINX INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Key management system" was invented by Abbas Morshed (Los Altos, Calif.), Ygal Arbel (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Balakrishna Jayadev (Mountain View, Calif.) and Eun Mi Kim (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples herein describe techniques for method of accessing encrypted data. The techniques include receiving, via a memory controller, a first memory request to a first memory region, where the first memory region is encrypted based on a first key, and incrementing, based on the first memory request, a first counter associated with the first key. Th...