ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,327, issued on April 8, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Device, system, and method for inspecting direct memory access requests" was invented by Kaijie Guo (Shanghai), Xin Zeng (Shanghai), Ned Smith (Beaverton, Ore.), Weigang Li (Shanghai), Junyuan Wang (Shanghai), Songwu Shen (Shanghai), Zijuan Fan (Shanghai), Yao Huo (Shanghai), Maksim Lukoshkov (Clarecastle Clare, Ireland) and Laurent Coquerel (Limerick, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and mechanisms for determining an operation to be performed with a direct memory access (DMA) request. An inspection unit (105) is coupled between an input-outp...