ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,788, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Marvell Israel (M.I.S.L) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Secure access to memory in an integrated circuit" was invented by Nitzan Dror (Ramot Hashavim, Israel) and Roman Nos (Petah Tikva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit (IC) chip includes a first memory that stores first information, and a second memory that stores second information that it to be protected from unauthorized access. Communication interface circuitry gives a processor external to the IC chip read access and/or write access to components of the IC chip. Embedded hardware security circuitry selectively provides ...