US Patent Issued to Arm on June 30 for "Technique for constraining access to memory using capabilities" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,107, issued on June 30, 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: "A technique is provided for constraining access to memory using capabilities. An apparatus is provided that has processing circuitry for performing operations during which access request to memory are generated, wherein the processing circuitry is arranged to generate memory addresses f...