ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,197, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS (ROUSSET) SAS (Rousset, France) and STMICROELECTRONICS BELGIUM (Machelen, Belgium).

"Protection of an electronic device" was invented by Olivier Van Nieuwenhuyze (Wezembeek-Oppem, Belgium) and Alexandre Charles (Auriol, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a processor and one or more secure elements. The processor executes a first high-level operating system and a first application. The one or more secure elements execute a first low-level operating system to verify a reliability, an authenticity, or a reliability and an authenticity of the firs...