ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,234, issued on April 15, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Cryptographic computing in multitenant environments" was invented by David M. Durham (Beaverton, Ore.), Michael D. LeMay (Hillsboro, Ore.), Salmin Sultana (Hillsboro, Ore.), Karanvir S. Grewal (Hillsboro, Ore.), Michael E. Kounavis (Portland, Ore.), Sergej Deutsch (Hillsboro, Ore.), Andrew James Weiler (Hillsboro, Ore.), Abhishek Basak (Bothell, Wash.), Dan Baum (Haifa, Israel) and Santosh Ghosh (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor, a system, a machine readable medium, and a method. The processor comprises first circuitry to: encrypt a ...