US Patent Issued to Cryptography Research on May 27 for "Anti-counterfeiting applications for advanced memories" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,372, issued on May 27, was assigned to Cryptography Research Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Anti-counterfeiting applications for advanced memories" was invented by Scott C. Best (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A block of data is provided from a verifier module to an authenticator module, the size of the block being correlated with one or more desired characteristics of the authenticator module. The verifier module receives a response from the authenticator module, the response comprising data result derived from a calculation involving the challenge value and the block of data. The verifier module verifies whether the re...