US Patent Issued to Intel on May 13 for "Partitioned platform security mechanism" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,105, issued on May 13, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Partitioned platform security mechanism" was invented by Bharat Pillilli (El Dorado Hills, Calif.), David W. Palmer (Beaverton, Ore.) and Nikola Radovanovic (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer platform is disclosed. The computer platform comprises a central processing unit (CPU) including at least one socket having a plurality of tiles and control circuitry to partition the socket into a plurality of sub-sockets and assign a unique identity to each of the plurality of sub-sockets for security verification, wherein each sub-socket compr...