ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,176, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"System and method for securing indirect memory accesses" was invented by Vivek Singh (Noida, India), Nikhil Tiwari (New Delhi) and Vishal Gulati (New Delhi).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit (IC), including a functional circuit and a security system, is disclosed. The functional circuit generates a request packet for an indirect memory access of a memory. The security system validates the functional circuit based on a security attribute and a functional identifier of the functional circuit. Based on the request packet and the validation of t...