ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,979, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd (Yokneam, Israel).

"Access-protection control for non-volatile memory" was invented by Haim Kupershmidt (Or Yehuda, Israel), Yuval Itkin (Zoran, Israel), Mark Luko (Herzliya, Israel), Boaz Shahar (Ra'anana, Israel), Uri Maor (Ramot, Israel), Gabi Liron (Yokneam Illit, Israel), Alex Shargorodsky (Rekhasim, Israel), Oded Golombek (Even Yehuda, Israel), Yair Porat (Bruchin, Israel), Matan Eliyahu (Ashdod, Israel), Denys Vinnyk (Bila Tserkva, Ukraine) and Alon Schneider (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a memory interface and a ...