US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on March 25 for "Memory devices and methods of processing security data thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,918, issued on March 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea).

"Memory devices and methods of processing security data thereof" was invented by Yoo-jung Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Jang-seok Choi (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Duk-sung Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Hyun-joong Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes: a memory cell array including a security region configured to store security data; and a security management circuit configured to store a guard key and, responsive to receiving a data operation command for the security region, limit a data operati...