US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics Belgium on Aug. 4 for "Memory storage device and method" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,656, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to STMicroelectronics Belgium (Diegem, Belgium).

"Memory storage device and method" was invented by Michael Peeters (Tourinnes-la-Grosse, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to secure storage, in a non-volatile memory, of initial data encrypted using a second data, including selecting a pointer aimed at an initial address of a memory cell of an initial part of the non-volatile memory, and encrypting the pointer using the second data; and-storing the encrypted pointer in the non-volatile memory."

The patent was filed on April 25, 2024, under Application No. 18/646,2...