ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,761, issued on March 17, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Public key storage with secure remote update capability" was invented by Zhan Liu (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments relate to a memory device. In one embodiment, a memory device is disclosed comprising a storage array, the storage array including a first region, the first region storing a server public key associated with a server, and a key table; and a controller configured to: receive a message from the server, the message including a command modifying the key table, validate the message using the server publ...