US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on July 15 for "Security capsule for enabling restricted features of a memory device" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,177, issued on July 15, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Security capsule for enabling restricted features of a memory device" was invented by Robert W. Strong (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing device initializes a memory device in an unauthenticated state in which the memory device is unable to execute one or more restricted commands. The processing device accesses a security capsule that is digitally signed using a private key. The processing device transitions the memory device to an authenticated state based on verifying that the security capsule is validly signed. The processing d...