ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,362, issued on April 29, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Multi-tenant isolated data regions for collaborative platform architectures" was invented by Francesc Guim Bernat (Barcelona, Spain), Karthik Kumar (Chandler, Ariz.) and Alexander Bachmutsky (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-tenant dynamic secure data region in which encryption keys can be shared by services running in nodes reduces the need for decrypting data as encrypted data is transferred between nodes in the data center. Instead of using a key per process/service, that is created by a memory controller when the service is instant...