US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 8 for "Processor instruction for secure pointer arithmetic" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,887, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Processor instruction for secure pointer arithmetic" was invented by Pierre Habouzit (Triel sur Seine, France), Michael D. Snyder (Cedar Park, Texas) and Jeff Gonion (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "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...