ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,880, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Memory allocation for microcontroller execution" was invented by Mihir Narendra Mody (Bangalore, India), Prithvi Shankar Yeyyadi Anantha (Bangalore, India), Mel Alan Phipps (Sugar Land, Texas), Prasad Jondhale (Bangalore, India), Mohd Asif Farooqui (Bangalore, India) and Shailesh Ghotgalkar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples disclosed herein relate to allocation of code and data of application software among memory of a microcontroller unit (MCU), and more particularly to allocating portions of the application software to random a...