US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics (Grand Ouest) on July 15 for "Method of managing access rights for software tasks executed by a microcontroller, and corresponding integrated circuit" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,173, issued on July 15, was assigned to STMicroelectronics (Grand Ouest) SAS (Le Mans, France).

"Method of managing access rights for software tasks executed by a microcontroller, and corresponding integrated circuit" was invented by Michel Jaouen (Yvre l'Eveque, France) and Loic Pallardy (Rouillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment a method for managing access rights of software tasks executed by a processing unit (CPU) using a cache memory containing execution data of the tasks in memory locations, each execution data having an attribute representative of a level of access right of the respective task, includes...