BAE Systems Assigned Patent

BAE Systems plc, London, Great Britain, has been assigned a patent (11531771) developed by Bevington, Ross James, Gloucester, Great Britain, for “methods of decrypting disk images, and decryption-enabling devices.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A decryption-enabling device for decrypting a disk image of a computer device, comprising a processor, memory and a hardware connector for connecting to the hardware interface connection of the computer device. The decryption-enabling device is arranged to create using the processor a copy of the random-access memory of the computer device, analyse using the processor the copy of the random-access memory to extract one or more potential decryption keys, and store the one or more potential decryption keys in the memory.”

The patent application was filed on 2018-11-20 (16/768195).