MUMBAI, India, June 30 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617066334 A) filed by Apple Inc. on May 26, 2026, for Processor Instruction For Secure Pointer Arithmetic.
Inventors include Habouzit, Pierre; Snyder, Michael D.; and Gonion, Jeff.
The application for the patent was published on June 26, 2026, under issue no. 26/2026.
Abstract: An apparatus includes a processor circuit with an execution pipeline circuit configured to execute instructions within an instruction stream, including a first instance of an instruction executable to compute an address to access a data array. The first instance of the instruction may specify a set of operands that includes a pointer to a base address of the data array, an...