ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,911, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Secure collection of diagnostics data about integrated circuit memory cells" was invented by Vincenzo Reina (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods to secure remote collection of memory diagnostics data generated during operations of memory cells configured in a memory device connected to a host system. The diagnostics data is stored in a secure memory region within the memory device, which controls access to the secure memory region based on cryptography. After a communication connection is established, via the host syste...