US Patent Issued to Intel on Nov. 25 for "Apparatus and method for secure instruction set execution, emulation, monitoring, and prevention" (Oregon, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,504, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for secure instruction set execution, emulation, monitoring, and prevention" was invented by Rajesh Poornachandran (Portland, Ore.), Vincent Zimmer (Issaquah, Wash.) and Prashant Dewan (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and method for secure instruction set execution, emulation, monitoring, and prevention. A processor embodiment includes registers, evaluator, and execution unit. The registers are to store rules which specify actions to be taken with respect to one or more instructions. The evaluator is to detect a re...