US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on March 18 for "Secure data storage with a dynamically generated key" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,994, issued on March 18, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Secure data storage with a dynamically generated key" was invented by Zhan Liu (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments relate to securing operations accessing a non-volatile storage area of a memory device. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising generating, by firmware of a memory device, a cryptographic key using a value of a physically unclonable function (PUF); writing, by the firmware, the cryptographic key to a volatile storage area; receiving, by the firmware, a command accessing a non-volatile stor...