US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on May 13 for "Combined cryptographic key management services for access control and proof of space" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,713, issued on May 13, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Combined cryptographic key management services for access control and proof of space" was invented by Luca Bert (San Jose, Calif.) and Joseph Harold Steinmetz (Loomis, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A security server storing a plurality of cryptographic keys to support device authentication, access control and proof of space plot farming. The cryptographic keys can include a first cryptographic key representative of an identity of a memory device, a second cryptographic key representative of a privilege to access a memory region in the memory device...