ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,894, issued on March 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Micro-architectural data protection" was invented by Shekar Babu S (Bangalore, India), D R Thippeswamy (Tumkur District, India), Niyathi Shenoy K (Kasaragod, India) and Dayananda Angadi (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system in response to detecting sensitive data, gets a memory allocated to the sensitive data from a secure zone of a dual in-line memory module. The system also blocks processes from access to the memory allocated to the sensitive data from the secure zone using security descriptors and access the sen...