US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Sept. 30 for "Selective cache line memory encryption" (Massachusetts, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,264, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Selective cache line memory encryption" was invented by David Andrew Roberts (Wellesley, Mass.) and Tony M. Brewer (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cache memory can maintain multiple cache lines and each cache line can include a data field, an encryption status attribute, and an encryption key attribute. The encryption status attribute can indicate whether the data field in the corresponding cache line includes encrypted or unencrypted data and the encryption key attribute can include an encryption key identifier for the corresponding cach...