ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,921, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Secure monitors for memory page protection" was invented by Erez Tsidon (Moreshet, Israel), Ori Cohen (Atlit, Israel), Barak Wasserstrom (Mizpe Aviv, Israel), Andrew Robert Sinton (Jerusalem), Asaf Modelevsky (Mizra, Israel) and Moshe Raz (Pardesiya, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies are disclosed for using hardware-embedded monitors to monitor pages of local memory and detect attribute violations or other unauthorized operations relating to the memory. The attribute violations may include mismatches of attributes (e.g., designating a page as ...