ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,778, issued on July 14, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Error reduction during cryptographic key updates in secure memory devices" was invented by Zhan Liu (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to improvements in key delivery to secure memory devices. In some implementations, the techniques described herein relate to a system including: a memory device including a key storage area; a key management server (KMS) configured to receive a key request, generate a cryptographic key, compute a hash of the cryptographic key, and return the cryptographic key and the hash in response t...