Inside Secure Assigned Patent

Inside Secure SA, Aix-en-Provence, France, has been assigned a patent (8,997,255) developed by Fusella, Yves, Aubagne, France, and Croguennec, Alexandre, Aix-en-Provence, France, for a “verifying data integrity in a data storage device.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A data storage device may include one or more pages, each page having a fixed number of memory cells, each memory cell being adapted to store one unit of data, a verification page, the verification page having a corresponding fixed number of verification cells, each verification cell storing a predetermined value, and a controller configured to 1) receive a read command having an address value, and 2) upon receiving the read command, a) retrieve a predetermined value from a verification cell corresponding to the address value, b) determine whether the retrieved predetermined value is an expected value, and c) if so, providing a retrieved unit of data, and if not, initiating a protective action. Determining whether the retrieved predetermined value is the expected value may include applying a function to the address value to obtain a result and determining whether the result corresponds to the retrieved predetermined value.“

The patent application was filed on September 7, 2006 (11/516,846).