ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,717, issued on May 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea) and KOREA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND BUSINESS FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Electronic device and memory protection method using same" was invented by Dongwook Shim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Donghoon Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a memory and a processor, the processor allocates first and second address spaces (AS) to the memory in rich execution environment (REE) when detecting a request to write data, writes the data to the first AS and detect access...