Broadcom Assigned Patent

Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,400,892) developed by Rajakarunanayake, Yasantha, San Ramon, CA, Bunch, William, Campbell, CA, and Mendel, Jacob, Tel Aviv, Israel, for a “apparatus and method to secure an electronic storage using a secure element.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A secure integrated circuit, (IC) to provide access to an electronic storage, the secure IC including a memory and a processor. The processor may generate a first key and a second key, and enable storing the first key in the memory and storing the second key in a device memory of a device. The processor may then receive the second key from the device when the device wants to access the electronic storage, and grant the device access to the electronic storage by using the first key and the second key received from the device.“

The patent application was filed on June 28, 2013 (13/930,280).