ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,266, issued on April 21, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Apparatus, system, and method for detecting physical infrastructure constraint violations" was invented by Siddharth K. Shah (Austin, Texas), Vilas Sridharan (Boxborough, Mass.), Amitabh Mehra (Fort Collins, Colo.), Anil Harwani (Austin, Texas) and William Fischofer (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disclosed method can include (i) reporting, by a microcontroller, detection of a violation of a physical infrastructure constraint to a machine check architecture, (ii) triggering, by the machine check architecture in response to th...