US Patent Issued to Mellanox Technologies on March 25 for "Confidential computing with device memory isolation" (Israeli, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,963, issued on March 25, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd (Yokneam, Israel).

"Confidential computing with device memory isolation" was invented by Boris Pismenny (Haifa, Israel), Miriam Menes (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ahmad Atamli (Oxford, Great Britain), Ilan Pardo (Ramat-Hasharon, Israel), Ariel Shahar (Jerusalem) and Uria Basher (Ganei Tal, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A confidential computing (CC) apparatus includes a CPU and a peripheral device. The CPU is to run a hypervisor that hosts one or more Trusted Virtual Machines (TVMs). The peripheral device is coupled to the CPU and to an external memory. The CPU include...