US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Nov. 11 for "Partitioned cryptographic protection for a memory system" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,862, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Partitioned cryptographic protection for a memory system" was invented by Lance W. Dover (Fair Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for partitioned cryptographic protection for a memory system are described. The method may include a host system generating a command to update a protection attribute of a first set of memory cells of the memory system, where the memory system includes multiple sets of memory cells, each set associated with a respective set of one or more first keys. The method may further include encrypti...