Patents by Inventor Gaspare Giglio

Gaspare Giglio has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20250023725
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, memory devices, and machine-readable mediums for providing a secure method of modifying, erasing, or updating security keys for protected regions of a memory device by using a special firmware object (a key-modification firmware) loaded to the memory device that contains instructions to reprogram, modify, and/or erase the keys. To ensure that this key-modification firmware does not become a security risk, the key-modification firmware object may be protected from subsequent usage in a variety of ways.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: Giuseppe Cariello, Gaspare Giglio, Patrick Miesen, Jonathan Scott Parry
  • Patent number: 12132832
    Abstract: Secure methods are described for modifying, erasing, or updating security keys for protected regions of a memory device by using a special firmware object (a key-modification firmware) loaded to the memory device that contains instructions to reprogram, modify, and/or erase the keys. To ensure that this key-modification firmware does not become a security risk, the key-modification firmware object may be protected from subsequent usage in a variety of ways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Giuseppe Cariello, Gaspare Giglio, Patrick Miesen, Jonathan Scott Parry
  • Publication number: 20210203496
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, memory devices, and machine-readable mediums for providing a secure method of modifying, erasing, or updating security keys for protected regions of a memory device by using a special firmware object (a key-modification firmware) loaded to the memory device that contains instructions to reprogram, modify, and/or erase the keys. To ensure that this key-modification firmware does not become a security risk, the key-modification firmware object may be protected from subsequent usage in a variety of ways.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Giuseppe Cariello, Gaspare Giglio, Patrick Miesen, Jonathan Scott Parry