US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Sept. 30 for "Secure serial peripheral interface (SPI) flash" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,071, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Secure serial peripheral interface (SPI) flash" was invented by Lance W. Dover (Fair Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application relates to a secure memory device. The secure memory device includes a controller configured to decode and execute commands issued by a host device; a cryptographic engine, the cryptographic engine configured to authenticate a subset of the commands, the subset of the commands each including a digital signature; and a first monotonic counter, the first monotonic counter being incremented after executing at leas...