ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,002, issued on May 20, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).
"Register shielding in semiconductor devices" was invented by Salvatore Marco Rosselli (Catania, Italy) and Giuseppe Guarnaccia (San Gregorio di Catania, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device comprises one or more registers having digital signals stored therein. The semiconductor device is configured for communication with one or more external devices and such communication may involve requests for access to portions of these register or registers. Register shield circuitry is provided comprising access detection circuitry ...