ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,313, issued on May 13, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Method for proving erasure of a memory" was invented by Nikita Veshchikov (Brussels) and Gareth Thomas Davies (Leuven, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is described for proving erasure of a memory. In the method a prover device receives a seed value from a verifier device. The prover device generates a series of data blocks starting with the seed value and a function. The series of data blocks is generated using the function and the seed to generate a first data block of the series of data blocks. Each subsequent data block is generated using th...