US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Sept. 1 for "Techniques for non-volatile data protection" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,335, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Techniques for non-volatile data protection" was invented by Bryan David Kerstetter (Kuna, Idaho), Donald Martin Morgan (Meridian, Idaho) and Alan J. Wilson (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for techniques for non-volatile data protection are described. As part of a power on operation, a non-volatile memory system may be configured to selectively stored data. For example, the memory system may determine whether a host system is authorized to access data stored in the memory system prior to a power off operation. If...