ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,248, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Netherlands).

"Memory power control unit" was invented by Prokash Ghosh (Mogra, India), Jyotirmoy Ghosh (Kolkata, India), Glenn Charles Abeln (Buda, Texas), Dwarka Prasad (Noida, India), Rajat Kohli (Bangalore, India), Jainendra Singh (Bangalore, India) and Jwalant Kumar Mishra (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory power control unit, MPCU, is provided for preventing unauthorised access to data stored in a volatile memory, the MPCU comprising a power controller comprising an input configured to receive a signal from a tamper detection circuit, a first supply input co...