US Patent Issued to Intel on Feb. 18 for "Processors, methods, systems, and instructions to protect shadow stacks" (Texas, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,453, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Processors, methods, systems, and instructions to protect shadow stacks" was invented by Vedvyas Shanbhogue (Austin, Texas), Jason W. Brandt (Austin, Texas), Ravi L. Sahita (Portland, Ore.), Barry E. Huntley (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Baiju V. Patel (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor of an aspect includes a decode unit to decode an instruction. The processor also includes an execution unit coupled with the decode unit. The execution unit, in response to the instruction, is to determine that an attempted change due to the instruction, to a s...