US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on March 4 for "Transparently attached flash memory security" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,739, issued on March 4, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Transparently attached flash memory security" was invented by Brian J. Marley (Smithtown, N.Y.) and Richard E. Wahler (Saint James, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes an interface circuit and a monitor circuit communicatively coupled to the interface circuit. The monitor circuit is configured to identify a command issued to a memory communicatively coupled to the monitor circuit through the interface circuit, determine whether the command is authorized, and, based on a determination that the command is not authorized, cancel t...