ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,719, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Resource access control" was invented by Sooraj Puthoor (Austin, Texas) and Nuwan S Jayasena (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Resource access control is described. In accordance with the described techniques, a process (e.g., an application process, a system process, etc.) issues an instruction seeking access to a computation resource (e.g., a processor resource, a memory resource, etc.) to perform a computation task. An execution context for the instruction is checked to determine whether the execution context includes a reso...