US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Nov. 11 for "Controller for regulating and securing access to one time programmable (OTP) memory" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,455, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Controller for regulating and securing access to one time programmable (OTP) memory" was invented by Angelo Alberto Rovelli (Agrate Brianza, Italy) and Federica Cresci (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access controller can be provided to regulate and secure access to an intermediate memory to which data stored in a one-time-programmable (OTP) memory can be copied. To secure the access of the intermediate memory, the access controller can regulate a frequency at which the intermediate memory can be accessed and cryptographically manage (e.g., encry...