ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,393, issued on March 4, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS (GRAND OUEST) SAS (Le Mans, France).

"Protection system and method for a memory" was invented by Michel Jaouen (Yvre l'eveque, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment system for protecting a memory comprises security software configured to determine, from an exception generated during an unauthorized action attempt in the memory, whether the security software can perform the action."

The patent was filed on Sept. 2, 2020, under Application No. 17/010,072.

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