US Patent Issued to Intel on July 1 for "Pointer based data encryption" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,463, issued on July 1, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Pointer based data encryption" was invented by David M. Durham (Beaverton, Ore.), Michael LeMay (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Ramya Jayaram Masti (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method comprises storing, in a register, an encoded pointer to a memory location, where first context information is stored in first bits of the encoded pointer and a slice of a memory address of the memory location is encrypted and stored in second bits of the encoded pointer. The method further includes decoding the encoded pointer to obtain the memory address of th...