ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,538, issued on July 8, was assigned to STMicroelectronics (Grand Ouest) SAS (Le Mans, France).

"Method for executing a software program by a processing unit comprising a compilation phase" was invented by Michel Jaouen (Yvre l'Eveque, France), Loic Pallardy (Rouillon, France) and Ludovic Barre (Le Mans, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment a method includes compiling, by a processor in a compiling phase, a software program intended to be executed by the processor, the processor having secure and non-secure access right level execution contexts, and/or privileged and non-privileged access right level execution context...