US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Jan. 20 for "Cryptographic block locking in a non-volatile memory device" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,135, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Cryptographic block locking in a non-volatile memory device" was invented by Jeremy Binfet (Boise, Idaho), Lance Walker Dover (Fair Oaks, Calif.), Robert William Strong (Folsom, Calif.), Walter Di Francesco (Avezzano, Italy), Tommaso Vali (Sezze, Italy) and Jeffrey Scott McNeil Jr. (Nampa, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device may be configured to receive a command to access a block of memory that is one of multiple blocks of memory included in the memory device. The memory device may be configured to receive a cryptographic signature assoc...