ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,998, issued on May 20, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Stateless and low-overhead domain isolation using cryptographic computing" was invented by Salmin Sultana (Hillsboro, Ore.), Michael LeMay (Hillsboro, Ore.), David M. Durham (Beaverton, Ore.), Karanvir S. Grewal (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Sergej Deutsch (Hillsboro, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies provide domain isolation using encoded pointers to data and code. A system may be configured for decoding an encoded pointer to obtain a linear address of an encrypted code block of a first software component in memory. The first software component shares ...