ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,954, issued on May 20, was assigned to Infineon Technologies LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems, methods, and devices for secured nonvolatile memories" was invented by Sandeep Krishnegowda (San Jose, Calif.) and Zhi Feng (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices securely boot processors and nonvolatile memories. Methods include implementing, using a controller of a secured nonvolatile memory, a validation operation on a first portion of code stored in a first secured storage region of the secured nonvolatile memory, the validation operation comprising computing a validation value. Methods also includ...