US Patent Issued to Intel on May 6 for "Secure direct peer-to-peer memory access requests between devices" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,840, issued on May 6, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Secure direct peer-to-peer memory access requests between devices" was invented by Utkarsh Y. Kakaiya (Folsom, Calif.), Rajesh Sankaran (Portland, Ore.) and David Koufaty (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of an integrated circuit comprises circuitry to store memory protection information for a non-host memory in a memory protection cache, and perform one or more memory protection checks on a translated access request for the non-host memory based on the stored memory protection information. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed....