McAfee Assigned Patent

McAfee, LLC, Santa Clara, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,482,278) developed by Pearson, Adrian R., Ghetie, Sergiu D., Hillsboro, OR, Bowen, Thomas R., Albuquerque, NM, Cain, Gamil A., El Dorado Hills, CA, Cox, Jason, Longmont, CO, Siddiqi, Faraz A., and Upasani, Neeraj S., Portland, OR, for a “remote provisioning and authenticated writes to secure storage devices.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A system for securing electronic devices includes a storage device including a storage device controller processor, at least one non-transitory machine readable storage medium in firmware of the storage device communicatively coupled to the storage device controller processor, and a monitor application comprising computer-executable instructions on the medium. The instructions are readable by the storage device controller processor. The monitor application is configured to provision one or more read-only areas of the storage device, provision a candidate copy area of the storage device, reduce a maximum capacity available for user data on the storage device by a size of the read-only areas and the candidate copy area, and secure access to the read-only areas of the storage device.”

The patent application was filed on March 8, 2019 (16/297,315).