ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,954, issued on Aug. 5.
"Protected regions management of memory" was invented by Brent Keeth (Boise, Idaho) and Naveh Malihi (University City, Mo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods related to managing regions of memory are described. Managing regions can include verifying whether an access command is authorized to access a particular region of a memory array, which may have some regions that have rules or restrictions governing access (e.g., so-called "protected regions"). The authorization can be verified utilizing a key and a memory address corresponding to the access command. If an access command is authorized t...