US Patent Issued to Arm on April 21 for "Technique for constraining access to memory using capabilities" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,323, issued on April 21, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Technique for constraining access to memory using capabilities" was invented by Francois Christopher Jacques Botman (Cambridge, Great Britain), Thomas Christopher Grocutt (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Bradley John Smith (Edmunds, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an apparatus, method and computer program for constraining memory accesses. The apparatus comprises processing circuitry to perform operations during which access requests to memory are generated. The processing circuitry is arranged to generate memory addresses for ...