ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,397, issued on June 10, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory processing apparatus, memory verification apparatus, memory updating apparatus, memory protection system, method, and computer readable medium" was invented by Akiko Mukai (Tokyo), Kazuhiko Minematsu (Tokyo), Naofumi Homma (Miyagi, Japan) and Rei Ueno (Miyagi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory address allocation unit allocates, to each of nodes in a tree structure configured for protecting a memory, a memory address unique to the node. A tag generation unit defines, for each of the nodes in the tree structure, a connection of the memory address and a const...