ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,102, issued on June 23, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Memory management" was invented by Madhusudana Reddy Vangireddy (Anantapur, India) and John Michael Horley (Hauxton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A target virtual address is translated to a target physical address for a memory access request. At least for write requests, the memory access request is rejected when a target stage-1 translation table entry specifies that a target memory region corresponding to the target virtual address is a guarded control stack (GCS) region for storing a GCS data structure for protecting return state informat...