ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,616, issued on June 3, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Memory systems and devices including examples of accessing memory and generating access codes using an authenticated stream cipher" was invented by Jeremy Chritz (Seattle) and David Hulton (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of systems and methods described herein provide for accessing memory devices and, concurrently, generating access codes using an authenticated stream cipher at a memory controller. For example, a memory controller may use a memory access request to, concurrently, perform translation logic and/or error correction on data ass...