ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,869, issued on July 14, was assigned to SAGEMCOM BROADBAND SAS (Bois-Colombes, France).

"Method for locking a rewritable non-volatile memory and electronic device implementing said method" was invented by Didier Sagot (Rueil Malmaison, France), Florent Dionisi (Rueil Malmaison, France), Pascal Perray (Rueil Malmaison, France) and Eric Le Bihan (Rueil Malmaison, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for locking a rewritable non-volatile memory of an electronic device is described. A first step of initialising the electronic device is performed. At least one memory area of the rewritable non-volatile memory is then selected fr...