ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,500, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Tag checking procedure calls" was invented by Kshitij Arun Doshi (Tempe, Ariz.) and Francesc Guim Bernat (Barcelona, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and techniques for tag checking procedure calls include specifying a value for a color in a program-counter relative (PC-relative) call instruction from a call site to a call target. A pointer is provided to steer the PC-relative call instruction to the call target based on the color. A function call is generated to the call target based on the pointer. Other systems, methods and apparatuses are also ...