ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,651, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).
"Apparatus and method for protecting memory" was invented by Min Su Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to an apparatus and method for protecting a memory. The apparatus may include a monitoring unit configured to monitor pieces of status data of an integrated circuit (IC) chip, and a processor configured to analyze the pieces of status data monitored by the monitoring unit to detect a cold boot attack on the IC chip and protect a memory in the IC chip from the cold boot attack according to a detection result....