ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,902, issued on July 8, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Confidential compute architecture integrated with direct swap caching" was invented by Ishwar Agarwal (Redmond, Wash.), Bryan David Kelly (Carnation, Wash.) and Vishal Soni (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for a confidential compute architecture integrated with direct swap caching are described. An example method for managing a near memory and a far memory includes, in response to determining that the far memory contains an encrypted version of a first block of data, retrieving from the far memory the encrypte...