US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Aug. 19 for "NAND page buffer based security operations" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,526, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"NAND page buffer based security operations" was invented by Jeremy Binfet (Boise, Idaho), Lance Walker Dover (Fair Oaks, Calif.), Tommaso Vali (Sezze, Italy) and Walter Di Francesco (Avezzano, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a memory device may resolve a set of latches of a NAND page buffer to a set of initialized values. The memory device may obtain a NAND page buffer initialized data set from the set of initialized values of the set of latches. The memory device may generate a security key using the NAND page buffer initial...