US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on Feb. 10 for "Host-device interface for debug authentication" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,698, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Host-device interface for debug authentication" was invented by Xavier Chbani (Grenoble, France) and Nadia Van-Den-Bossche (Meylan, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a debug port providing a communications interface for debugging purposes, a plurality of processing unit access ports, an authentication interface circuit configured to authenticate the external device, and a further access port coupled between the debug port and the authentication interface circuit. The further access port is configured to be in an ...