US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on May 13 for "Tamper detection and prevention in computer systems having one-time programmable memory" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,183, issued on May 13, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Tamper detection and prevention in computer systems having one-time programmable memory" was invented by Sudhir Satpathy (Redmond, Wash.), Wojciech Stefan Powiertowski (Kirkland, Wash.), Nagendra Gupta Modadugu (San Francisco) and Neeraj Upasani (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes systems on a chip (SOCs) that prevent trim attempts. The SOCs include one-time programmable (OTP) memory and an engine configured to determine if the one-time programmable (OTP) memory has been trimmed; and if the one-time pro...