ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,640, issued on May 27, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Performing security functions for an in-vehicle internet of things (IoT) network" was invented by Sourin Sarkar (Bangalore, India), Kanika Mittal (Agra, India) and Gowrishankar Gajendiran (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a device of an Internet of Things (IoT) network may receive, from a host associated with the IoT network, information associated with the IoT network. The device may store, via a memory controller of the device, the information in a memory with an embedded hardware security module of the device, whe...