ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,125, issued on July 14, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Method for performing system task in unprivileged mode and associated electronic device" was invented by Chia-Yu Ku (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Tien-Fu Chang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Fu-Shing Ju (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a processor and a hardware component. The processor is arranged to utilize an instruction set architecture (ISA) to transmit a first request with a first verification key to a hardware component, for requesting the hardware component to execute a system task in an unprivileged mode, wh...