US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on July 29 for "Write protection using an immutable root of trust" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,610, issued on July 29, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Write protection using an immutable root of trust" was invented by Adrian Pearson (Battle Ground, Wash.), Rolf Peter Neugebauer (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Benjamin Serebrin (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are techniques for write protecting a non-volatile memory (NVM) after the contents of the NVM have been set. In some examples, a computing device or system having an NVM also includes a Root of Trust (RoT) configured to generate a write protect command as an input to the NVM. The RoT generates the write protect command in res...