ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,409, issued on March 11, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Apparatus and method of controlling access to data stored in a non-trusted memory" was invented by Hector Montaner Mas (Cambridge, Great Britain), Andreas Lars Sandberg (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Roberto Avanzi (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus including memory access circuitry for controlling access to data stored in the non-trusted memory, and memory security circuitry to verify integrity of data stored in the non-trusted memory. The memory security circuitry has authentication code generation circuitry for genera...