ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,263, issued on March 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Disaggregated computing for distributed confidential computing environment" was invented by Reshma Lal (Portland, Ore.), Pradeep Pappachan (Tualatin, Ore.), Luis Kida (Beaverton, Ore.), Soham Jayesh Desai (Hillsboro, Ore.), Sujoy Sen (Beaverton, Ore.), Selvakumar Panneer (Portland, Ore.) and Robert Sharp (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus to facilitate disaggregated computing for a distributed confidential computing environment is disclosed. The apparatus includes a graphics processing unit (GPU) to: provide a virtual GPU monitor (VG...