US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on Jan. 27 for "SOC architecture with secure, selective peripheral enabling/disabling" (Italian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,342, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"SOC architecture with secure, selective peripheral enabling/disabling" was invented by Antonino Mondello (Messina, France), Michele Alessandro Carrano (Catania, Italy) and Riccardo Condorelli (Catania, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A SOC includes a core, peripherals, and a bus for interconnecting the core and peripherals. Some peripherals can be selectively enabled or disabled on-demand. The SoC further includes peripheral enabling/disabling electronics and peripheral enabling/disabling circuitry coupled to the peripherals. The peripheral ...