US Patent Issued to Crossbar on Dec. 2 for "Monotonic counter implemented in non-volatile resistive switching memory" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,836, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Crossbar Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Monotonic counter implemented in non-volatile resistive switching memory" was invented by Sung Hyun Jo (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monotonic counter implemented at least in part in non-volatile memory hardware is described herein. Compared with software counting algorithms, the disclosed embodiments significantly enhance security of disclosed monotonic counters. In some aspects of the disclosed embodiments, a non-binary coded decimal (BCD) counting algorithm can be utilized in whole or in part to enhance longevity of non-volatile memor...