US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Aug. 5 for "Resource access security for multiple software contexts" (American, Indian, Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,229, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Resource access security for multiple software contexts" was invented by Eric Thierry Jean Peeters (Frisco, Texas), Gary Augustine Cooper (Oakmont, Pa.), Robin Osa Hoel (Oslo, Norway), Ruchi Shankar (Bengaluru, India) and Prachi Mishra (Ahmedabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In described examples, a processor system includes a mailbox, a hardware security functional block (HSFB, also called a trusted agent herein), a processor, and a processor firewall. The HSFB includes a database configured to store at least one software context access rule. The proces...