US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics (Grand Ouest) on June 24 for "Method for monitoring an execution of a program code portion and corresponding system-on-chip" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,762, issued on June 24, was assigned to STMicroelectronics (Grand Ouest) SAS (Le Mans, France).

"Method for monitoring an execution of a program code portion and corresponding system-on-chip" 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: "A method is provided for monitoring an execution of a selected program code portion stored in a memory address range between a start address and an end address. The method includes starting a timing when a program counter points to the start address of the selected program code portion. Current values of the program counter ar...