ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,190, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Data integrity check for granule protection data" was invented by Jason Parker (Sheffield, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Address translation circuitry translates a target virtual address (VA) specified by a memory access request into a target physical address (PA) associated with a selected physical address space (PAS) selected from among a plurality of PASs. A granule protection data block is loaded from memory comprising at least one granule protection entry (GPE), each GPE corresponding to a respective granule of PAs and specifying granu...