US Patent Issued to Intel on Jan. 28 for "Cryptographic computing with legacy peripheral devices" (Oregon, Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,660, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Cryptographic computing with legacy peripheral devices" was invented by Anna Trikalinou (Hillsboro, Ore.), Abhishek Basak (Bothell, Wash.), Rupin H. Vakharwala (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Utkarsh Y. Kakaiya (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a read request is received from a peripheral device across an interconnect, with the read request including a process identifier and an encrypted virtual address. One or more keys are obtained based on the process identifier of the read request, and the encrypted virtual address of the read reques...