ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,515, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Computing system with dynamic firewall mechanism and associated method" was invented by Chih-Hsiang Hsiao (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Pei-Lun Suei (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yu-Chi Chu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yingshiuan Pan (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system includes a memory, an MPU, and a processor. The MPU is arranged to: receive permission information of the memory; and perform a protection operation through a dynamic firewall. The processor is arranged to execute a root manager and a hypervisor. The root manager is arranged to provide the perm...