University of Central Florida Research Foundation Assigned Patent

University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc., Orlando, FL, has been assigned a patent (11714725) developed by Zubair, Kazi Abu, and Awad, Amro, Orlando, FL, for “system and method for ultra-low overhead and recovery time for secure non-volatile memories.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A device comprising a memory controller coupled to a non-volatile memory (NVM) device with a shadow tracker memory region. The controller comprises a low-overhead and low recovery time for integrity-protected systems by recovering a secure metadata cache. The controller is configured to persistently track addresses of blocks in the secure metadata cache in the NVM device when a miss occurs, and track the persistent addresses, after the miss. The controller is configured to rebuild affected parts of the secure metadata cache associated with the persistent addresses in the NVM device. A system is provided which includes the memory controller interfaced with an NVM device with the shadow tracker memory region.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-06-03 (16/892019).