US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Dec. 16 for "Methods and apparatus for selective encryption of execute in place (XIP) data" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,245, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Methods and apparatus for selective encryption of execute in place (XIP) data" was invented by Veeramanikandan Raju (Bangalore, India), Mihir Narendra Mody (Bangalore, India) and Tanu Hari Dixit (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example apparatus includes: interface circuitry; and programmable circuitry configured to: obtain a set of processor instructions; select a first subset of processor instructions from the set; encrypt the first subset of processor instructions; select a second subset of processor instructions from the set; compute a pl...