ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,404, issued on Aug. 11.

"Mechanism to support writing files into a file system mounted in a secure memory device" was invented by Olivier Duval (Pacifica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method and apparatus to record a file in a file system that is mounted in a secure section of a memory device. The memory device authenticates a requester to write data into secure section based on whether the requester is in possession of a cryptographic key. Nonprivileged modules of the operation system can write into a nonsecure section of the memory device. Requests to write or change a file can be recorded by nonprivileged module...