ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,516, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Solidigm Inc. (Rancho Cordova, Calif.).

"Protecting data stored in memory" was invented by Ning Wu (Folsom, Calif.), Mohammad Nasim Imtiaz Khan (Rancho Cordova, Calif.), Cory Lappi (Rochester, Minn.) and Jozsef Dudas (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and related systems are provided. A method is performed by a memory device including memory, where the memory device is coupled to a host device. A method includes receiving, at the memory device, a command from the host device to read a portion of the memory, determining, by the memory device, for the portion of the memory, a...