ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,838, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Disaggregated computing for distributed confidential computing environment" was invented by Reshma Lal (Portland, Ore.), Pradeep Pappachan (Tualatin, Ore.), Luis Kida (Beaverton, Ore.), Soham Jayesh Desai (Rochester, Minn.), Sujoy Sen (Beaverton, Ore.), Selvakumar Panneer (Portland, Ore.) and Robert Sharp (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus to facilitate disaggregated computing for a distributed confidential computing environment is disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more processors to: provide a remote GPU middleware layer to act...