ClevX Assigned Patent

ClevX, LLC, Kirkland, WA, has been assigned a patent (9,690,952) developed by Johnson, Simon B., Bonney Lake, WA, for a “encryption key generation in encrypted storage devices.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A system and method of generating an encryption key in a self-encrypting mass storage device that includes using a manual input device as input for a micro-controller that contains a cyclic counter. An input device event triggers the micro-controller to read the current state of the cyclic counter. An accumulation of cyclic counter values is used as a source of entropy to seed a deterministic random number generator. The output of the deterministic random number generator is used as an encryption key for encryption/decryption processes within the mass storage device.“

The patent application was filed on June 24, 2015 (14/749,627).