ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,284, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).
"Tool security system" was invented by Albrecht Mayer (Waakirchen, Germany) and Gasper Skvarc Bozic (Unterhaching, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and circuitries are disclosed for providing security for tool access in a device. In one example, a device includes a bus master, a memory protection unit, and protection agent circuitry. The bus master is configured to store, in a first range of memory locations, request messages received from a tool interface of the device, each request message encapsulating a tool-related comm...