US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Sept. 16 for "Authenticated reading of memory system data" (Italian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,188, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Authenticated reading of memory system data" was invented by Lance W. Dover (Fair Oaks, Calif.), Giuseppe Vito Portacci (Vimercate, Italy) and Giuseppe Ferrari (Naples, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for authenticated reading of memory system data are described. In some examples, a host system and a memory system may exchange keys used to grant the host system access to one or more protected regions of the memory system. The keys may be symmetric or asymmetric. In some cases, the host system may transmit a read comman...