US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Sept. 8 for "Threat detection using a measured storage device" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,939, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Threat detection using a measured storage device" was invented by Zhan Liu (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments relate to detecting malicious data and in particular to a method that includes loading data from a storage device; loading secure identifying data (SID) associated with the data from a write-protected region of the storage device, the SID including a digest and at least one metadata field; comparing the at least one metadata field in the SID to a corresponding metadata field of the data; computing a current...