US Patent Issued to Mellanox Technologies on Dec. 16 for "Integrated-circuit memory dump using hardware security mechanism" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,280, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd (Yokneam, Israel).

"Integrated-circuit memory dump using hardware security mechanism" was invented by Alon Singer (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Zachy Haramaty (Ramat Gan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes multiple registers, multiple hardware-implemented Privilege Level Indicators (PLIs), and one or more circuits. The registers are to store respective values. The PLIs are to specify privilege levels for accessing the respective registers. The one or more circuits are to perform a secure memory dump operation including (i) checking the PLIs of one or more...