ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,011, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Validating hardware processors using signed enclave images" was invented by Lee A Preimesberger (Spring, Texas), Grant OConnor (Spring, Texas), Jonathan R. Mooty (Spring, Texas) and Vartan Yosef Kasheshian (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique includes, responsive to a boot of a computer platform, selecting a signed enclave image based on a socket identifier associated with the hardware processor. The signed enclave image corresponds to a hardware processor identity. The technique includes, responsive to the boot of t...