ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,928, issued on June 23, was assigned to STMicroelectronics (Grand Ouest) SAS (Le Mans, France).

"Method, system, and circuit for memory protection unit configuration and content generation" was invented by Frederic Ruelle (Marigne-Laille, France) and Michel Jaouen (Yvre l'Eveque, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, method, and circuitry for generating content for a programmable computing device based on user-selected memory regions. Contiguous regions that share memory access attributes are merged, interleaved contiguous regions that share at least one nested attribute are defined into combined regions, and remaining region...