ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,286, issued on June 3, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Memory device with cryptographic kill switch" was invented by Gil Golov (Backnang, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A one-time programmable (OTP) memory is included in both a memory device and a processing device. The OTP memories store encryption keys and the encryption and decryption of messages between the two devices are used as a heartbeat to determine that the memory device has not been separated from the processing device and, in some instances, connected to a malicious processing device."
The patent was filed on Aug. 11, 2023, under Applicati...