ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,481, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Secure master and secure guest endpoint security firewall" was invented by Timothy D. Anderson (University Park, Texas), Joseph R. M. Zbiciak (San Jose, Calif.), Matthew D. Pierson (Murphy, Texas) and Kai Chirca (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments relate to a security firewall having a security hierarchy including: secure master (SM); secure guest (SG); and non-secure (NS). There is one secure master and n secure guests. The firewall includes one secure region for secure master and one secure region for secure guests. The SM region on...