US Patent Issued to Kyndryl on Dec. 9 for "Protecting a non-volatile solid-state memory from an unauthorized access" (Costa Rican, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,704, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Kyndryl Inc. (New York).

"Protecting a non-volatile solid-state memory from an unauthorized access" was invented by Cesar Augusto Rodriguez Bravo (Alajuela, Costa Rica), David Alonso Campos Batista (Aurora, Costa Rica) and Thomas Brackhahn (Garches, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is provided for protecting data stored by a non-volatile solid-state memory from an unauthorized access. In response to a trigger event indicating an increased probability of the unauthorized access, the memory is destroyed by directing through the memory an electric current exceeding a rated current o...