US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics (Grand Ouest) on Dec. 2 for "Non-volatile memory with access control circuit for secure boot of an electronic device" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,112, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to STMicroelectronics (Grand Ouest) SAS (Le Mans, France).

"Non-volatile memory with access control circuit for secure boot of an electronic device" was invented by Vincent Berthelot (Saint Pavace, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment a method includes executing, during a first phase, one or more first codes stored in a first immutable zone of a non-volatile memory of an electronic device, forbidding, by an access control circuit of the non-volatile memory, execution of any codes stored in a second zone of the non-volatile memory during the first phase, executing, during a second p...