Patent 9529734 was granted and assigned to Micron Technology on December, 2016 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A smart storage device can have a smart-card portion with access control circuitry and integrated memory, a controller in selective communication with the smart-card portion, and a memory device in communication with the controller. The memory device can be separate from the smart-card portion and can store one or more smart-card applications.