ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,752, issued on March 24, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS (ROUSSET) SAS (Rousset, France) and STMICROELECTRONICS BELGIUM (Machelen, Belgium).

"Protection of an electronic device" was invented by Olivier Van Nieuwenhuyze (Wezembeek-Oppem, Belgium) and Alexandre Charles (Auriol, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a secure element and an application programming interface. The secure element, in operation, executes a first application. The application programming interface, in operation, verifies a reliability of a received command directed to the first application, and transmits the command a result o...