US Patent Issued to Nuvoton Technology on July 7 for "Secure control circuit, operating device and method thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,611, issued on July 7, was assigned to Nuvoton Technology Corp. (Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan).

"Secure control circuit, operating device and method thereof" was invented by Wei-Ling Lin (Jhubei City, Taiwan), Chia-Hao Huang (Jhubei City, Taiwan) and Tsun-Yao Fan (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secure control circuit protects data stored in a memory is provided. A setting circuit provides a first activation signal and protection information. The protection information points to a confidential area of the memory. A processing circuit provides a second activation signal and access information. An arbiter determinat...