ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,403, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) and ATI Technologies ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Devices and systems for enforcing confidential computing" was invented by Nippon Raval (Markham, Canada), Alexander J. Branover (Boxborough, Mass.), Philip Ng (Markham, Canada), Donald Matthews Jr. (Ft. Collins, Colo.) and Anthony Asaro (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed device includes a device comprising a device-attached memory and a trust controller for confidential computing. The trust controller can maintain a record of devices that are permitted to access the device-a...