ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,654, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Selective memory duplication control" was invented by Jonathan Charles Masters (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generally disclosed herein is an approach for securing data. The approach may include encountering a pointer to a first memory location and determining, based on the pointer, that the first memory location is storing sensitive data. The approach may further include automatically copying the sensitive data to a secure memory location in response to determining that the first memory location is storing sensitive data."

The patent was filed on ...