ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,473, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for trust domain creation and destruction" was invented by Hormuzd Khosravi (Portland, Ore.), Dror Caspi (Kiryat Yam, Israel) and Arie Aharon (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of creating a trusted execution domain includes initializing, by a processing device executing a trust domain resource manager (TDRM), a trust domain control structure (TDCS) and a trust domain protected memory (TDPM) associated with a trust domain (TD). The method further includes generating a one-time cryptographic key, assigning the one-tim...