US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Dec. 16 for "Cryptographic data integrity protection" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,010, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Cryptographic data integrity protection" was invented by David Aaron Palmer (Boise, Idaho), Nadav Grosz (Broomfield, Colo.), Lance W. Dover (Fair Oaks, Calif.) and Yoav Weinberg (Thornhill, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device includes a memory storage region and a controller having a processor. The processor retrieves user data from the memory storage region using a physical block address corresponding to a logical block address (LBA), in response to a read command. The retrieved user data includes a first hash received through a host i...