Cryptography Research Assigned Patent

Cryptography Research, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,902,096) developed by Kocher, Paul C., San Francisco, CA, and Handschuh, Helena, Palo Alto, CA, for “protecting media items using a media security controller.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A media storage device includes a media security controller circuit and a memory to store data that relates to a media item to be rendered by a rendering device. The media security controller circuit sends a message to the rendering device that causes the rendering device to obtain a portion of data from memory of the media storage device and provide it to the media security controller circuit. The portion is received and transformed by the media security controller circuit. The media security controller circuit sends the transformed portion to the rendering device.”

The patent application was filed on October 28, 2019 (16/665,113).