US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on Feb. 3 for "Method for storing a key in a non-volatile memory" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,663, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Method for storing a key in a non-volatile memory" was invented by Jawad Benhammadi (Pont de Claix, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is presented for verifying a writing of a key into a non-volatile memory. A first cyclic redundancy code of the key is stored into a register of an interface of the memory. A second cyclic redundancy code is computed on a message formed by the copied key having the first cyclic redundancy code linked thereto. The writing of the key into the non-volatile memory is considered as valid when the second cycli...