ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,007, issued on June 24, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Enabling late-binding of security features via configuration security controller for accelerator devices" was invented by Alpa Trivedi (Portland, Ore.), Steffen Schulz (Darmstadt, Germany) and Patrick Koeberl (Alsbach-Haenlein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus to facilitate enabling late-binding of security features via configuration security controller for accelerator devices is disclosed. The apparatus includes a security controller to manage security and configuration of the apparatus, wherein the security controller comprises a programm...