US Patent Issued to Arm on June 2 for "Apparatus and method for managing capabilities" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,578, issued on June 2, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Apparatus and method for managing capabilities" was invented by Francois Christopher Jacques Botman (Cambridge, Great Britain), Thomas Christopher Grocutt (Cambridge, Great Britain), Hugo John Martin Vincent (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Christopher Alan Reed (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is described having processing circuitry for performing operations during which access requests to memory are generated. The processing circuitry generates memory addresses for the access requests using capabilities, where each capability indica...