US Patent Issued to Rambus on Feb. 24 for "Multi-processor device with secure processor-controlled access to memory" (North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,451, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Multi-processor device with secure processor-controlled access to memory" was invented by Evan Lawrence Erickson (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Taeksang Song (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-processor device is disclosed. The multi-processor device includes memory interface circuitry to access external memory. A primary processor is selectively coupled to the interface circuitry. A secure processor enables/disables access to the memory interface circuitry by the primary processor based on an operating mode of the multi-processor IC chip."

The p...