US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices, ATI TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 15 for "Secure management device control information in confidential computing environments" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,210, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) and ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Secure management device control information in confidential computing environments" was invented by Philip Ng (Toronto), Nippon Raval (Markham, Canada), Jeremy W. Powell (Austin, Texas), Donald Matthews Jr. (Ft. Collins, Colo.) and David Kaplan (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor includes a security processor and an input-output memory management unit (IOMMU). The security processor is configured to maintain device control information in a secure data structure and prevent a h...