ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,547, issued on July 29, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Preventing replacement and clone attacks using a secure processing environment" was invented by Zhan Liu (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a device including: a storage device, the storage device including a first physically unclonable function (PUF) and configured to generate a storage device public key and a storage device private key; and a secure environment, the secure environment including a controller configured for: transmitting a nonce value to the storage device; receivin...