ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,187, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Multi-key cryptographic memory protection" was invented by Siddhartha Chhabra (Portland, Ore.), Hormuzd M. Khosravi (Portland, Ore.), Gideon Gerzon (Zichron Yaakov, Israel), Barry E. Huntley (Hillsboro, Ore.), Gilbert Neiger (Hillboro, Ore.), Ido Ouziel (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Baiju Patel (Portland, Ore.), Ravi L. Sahita (Portland, Ore.), Amy L. Santoni (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Ioannis T. Schoinas (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a processor to execute instruction(s), wherein the instructions comprise a mem...