SK hynix and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Assigned Patent

SK hynix Inc., Icheon, Korea, and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea, has been assigned a patent (10,862,876) developed by Ro, Yeonju, Daegu, Korea, Jin, Seongwook, Seoul, Korea, Huh, Jaehyuk, Daejeon, Korea, and Kim, John Dongjun, Seoul, Korea, for “device for encrypting and/or decrypting packets and method for routing packets in memory network including the same.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A device transmits or receives a packet in a memory network including one or more processors and/or one or more memory devices. The device includes a key storage unit configured to store a one-time password (OTP) key that is shared with a target node, an encryption unit configured to encrypt a transmission packet with the OTP key stored in the key storage unit and to transmit the encrypted transmission packet to the target node, and a decryption unit configured to decrypt a receiving packet from the target node with the OTP key stored in the key storage unit. The device is a processor or a memory device in the memory network.”

The patent application was filed on September 14, 2017 (15/704,601).