G06F 12/1466
Key-lock mechanism
Official title: {Key-lock mechanism}
G06F12/1466 (Key-lock mechanism) appears on 1,131 US grants and 1,119 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 1,131
- Published applications
- 1,119
- Assignees
- 287
- Inventors
- 2,063
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 68 | 38 |
| 2025 | 51 | 52 |
| 2026 | 27 | 22 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Memory controller, storage device including the same, and operating method of the memory controller6 Oct 2026US 12,754,855 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Key management in computer processors22 Sep 2026US 12,743,382 B2
- Dynamic space allocation for cryptographic key management22 Sep 2026US 12,743,384 B1Bank of America Corporation
- Selective synchronization of content items in a content management system22 Sep 2026US 12,743,397 B2Dropbox, Inc.
- Protecting execution environments within domains using encryption environment id to generate encryption key8 Sep 2026US 12,730,761 B2Arm Limited
- Tag protecting instruction6 Aug 2026US 2026/0228137 A1Arm Limited
- Managing address space in register bank of system basis chip16 Jul 2026US 2026/0203235 A1
- Data processing system with cache invalidation in a shared cache18 Jun 2026US 2026/0169927 A1NXP USA, Inc.
- Confidential computing guest private page18 Jun 2026US 2026/0169928 A1Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Memory controller and storage device including same18 Jun 2026US 2026/0172229 A1SK hynix Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Metadata for managing I/O and storage for a virtualization654US 8,850,130 B1Nutanix, Inc. · 2014
- Computing in parallel processing environments463US 8,738,860 B1Tilera Corporation · 2014
- Encrypted data storage card including smartcard integrated circuit for storing an access password and encryption keys390US 5,623,637 ATelequip Corporation · 1997
- System and method for logical deletion of stored data objects311US 9,235,476 B2Amazon Technologies, Inc. · 2016
- Methods and apparatus for providing security for a data storage system221US 7,134,138 B2EMC Corporation · 2006