US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics (Grand Ouest) on Feb. 10 for "Method for managing access rights of memory regions and corresponding system on chip" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,555, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to STMicroelectronics (Grand Ouest) SAS (Le Mans, France).

"Method for managing access rights of memory regions and corresponding system on chip" was invented by Loic Pallardy (Rouillon, France) and Lionel Debieve (Fille, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method for managing access rights of memory regions of a memory comprises assigning an execution permission status for each memory region in a firewall device dedicated to the memory, so that the content of a memory region having an executable status is capable of being executed by a processor, and the content of a memory region having a ...