US Patent Issued to Mellanox Technologies on Sept. 16 for "Maintaining data confidentiality in shared computing environments" (Israeli, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,278, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Maintaining data confidentiality in shared computing environments" was invented by Ahmad Atamli (Brighton, Great Britain), Ilan Pardo (Ramat-Hasharon, Israel), Miriam Menes (Tel Aviv, Israel), Shahaf Shuler (Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot, Israel), Meni Orenbach (Giv'atayim, Israel), Uria Basher (Nehusha, Israel) and Gabi Liron (Yokneam Illit, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed herein enables selective clearing of memory regions upon a context switch. An example method includes the operations of: receiving a memory access re...