ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,683, issued on March 31, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Reducing start up times in device identity composition engine (DICE) devices" 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 storage array; a controller configured to detect a shutdown event; and an auto-measure circuit configured to: generate a plurality of measurements corresponding to a plurality of layers of a boot sequence, each layer including executable code used to generate a respective measurement; compare the plurality of measurements t...