ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,444, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Apparatuses and methods for signal encryption in high bandwidth memory" was invented by Chikara Kondo (Tokyo) and Kazuhiro Kurihara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure are drawn to apparatuses, systems, and methods for signal encryption in high bandwidth memory. A high bandwidth memory (HBM) may include a mix of secure circuits and non-secure circuits, which are coupled to secure and non-secure registers respectively. Information may be communicated between the secure and non-secure registers along an interface. The informa...