ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,895, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Thread-based sandboxing for untrusted software execution" was invented by Tanmaya Mishra (Wilmington, Mass.) and Scott Peters (Brookston, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes approaches for sandboxing a thread and memory resources within non-secure/secure processing environments such as in a TrustZone-M processor architecture. An example method of controlling memory access includes: providing a memory locking service in a computing device having a secure processing environment and a non-secure processing environment, and executi...