US Patent Issued to Arm on June 23 for "Memory protection" (British, German, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,290, issued on June 23, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Memory protection" was invented by Roberto Avanzi (Munich), Andreas Lars Sandberg (Cambridge, Great Britain), Ionut Alexandru Mihalcea (London), David Helmut Schall (Bad Reppenau, Germany) and Alexander Klimov (Hadera, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods for memory protection are disclosed. A memory protection apparatus is interposed between a system cache and a memory system. The apparatus comprises encryption circuitry, which encrypts data item in dependence on encryption metadata and decrypts encrypted data items in dependence o...