US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Sept. 9 for "Memory chip test pad access management to facilitate data security" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,619, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Memory chip test pad access management to facilitate data security" was invented by Qi Dong (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing memory chip test pad access management to facilitate data security is disclosed. A host issues a command to access a non-volatile memory of a memory chip system via a test pad. A controller acknowledges the command by transmitting a response to the host to authenticate the host for access. The host then issues an authenticated command to modify a reserved byte of a protected memory partition of the no...