ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,035, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Methods and apparatus to facilitate immutable configuration of memory devices" was invented by Prasanth Viswanathan Pillai (Bangalore, India), Rajasekhar Reddy Allu (Plano, Texas), David P. Foley (Sugar Land, Texas) and Amritpal S. Mundra (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are described corresponding to immutable configuration of memory devices. An example memory includes a memory bank including a first portion and a second portion, the second portion configured to store configuration informatio...