US Patent Issued to Renesas Electronics America on Nov. 18 for "Write protect function with secure certificate authentication" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,236, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Renesas Electronics America Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Write protect function with secure certificate authentication" was invented by Shwetal Arvind Patel (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, an apparatus is disclosed that includes a memory slot including a certificate chain corresponding to an entity and a memory block. The memory block has protection enabled. The apparatus includes a processing device. The processing device is configured to receive a request message to clear protection for the memory block from a computing device of the entity. The request message...