US Patent Issued to CIRRUS LOGIC on March 3 for "Dynamic operating mode and dataset-based register access locking" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,896, issued on March 3, was assigned to CIRRUS LOGIC INC. (Austin, Texas).

"Dynamic operating mode and dataset-based register access locking" was invented by Arun R. Ramani (Austin, Texas), Amar Vellanki (Cedar Park, Texas), Brent W. Wilson (Austin, Texas) and Nathan D. P. Buchanan (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit (IC), including multiple registers and functional units for performing operations of the integrated circuit, provides security of register accesses. A bus interface controller coupled to the registers provides read/write access from bus interface. The IC includes a state controller for man...