ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,985, issued on June 24, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"System and method for providing limited utilization run time application control as a service in microcontrollers" was invented by Veeramanikandan Raju (Bengaluru, India) and Jonathan William Nafziger (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a memory device and a microcontroller device integrated with the memory device. The microcontroller device is adapted to be communicatively coupled to a processor device and is configured to manage access by the processor device to data stored on the memory device. Managing access by the processor device...