ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,280, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatuses, methods and computer programs for executing an executable, and method for distributing software or firmwares" was invented by Mateusz Bronk (Gdansk, Poland), Arkadiusz Berent (Tuchom, Poland), Piotr Zmijewski (Gdansk, Poland) and Krystian Matusiewicz (Gdansk, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples relate to apparatuses, methods, and computer programs for executing an executable, and to a method for distributing software or firmware. An apparatus for executing an executable comprises interface circuitry, machine-readable instructions...