US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on Feb. 24 for "Semiconductor chip apparatus and method for checking the integrity of a memory" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,483, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Semiconductor chip apparatus and method for checking the integrity of a memory" was invented by Marcus Janke (Munich) and Steffen Sonnekalb (Taufkirchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor chip apparatus including a memory having a plurality of memory locations, a memory access element, and an integrity check device configured to store a reference value for a check function over values stored in the memory locations and, in a case of write access to a memory location, configured to update a check value with the value to be writ...