US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on July 14 for "License control using a memory device having a cryptographic key" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,766, issued on July 14, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"License control using a memory device having a cryptographic key" was invented by Zhan Liu (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a system including a memory device secure storage region, the secure storage region storing a first cryptographic key and a digital certificate associated with the first cryptographic key; and a computing device, the computing device communicatively coupled to the memory device and configured to: generate a challenge value; transmit the challenge value to the...