US Patent Issued to Intel on Aug. 11 for "Circuitry and methods for implementing capabilities using narrow registers" (Oregon, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,057, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Circuitry and methods for implementing capabilities using narrow registers" was invented by Michael LeMay (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Jason W. Brandt (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses for implementing capabilities using narrow registers are described. In certain examples, a hardware processor core comprises a capability management circuit to check a capability for a memory access request, the capability comprising an address field, a validity field, and a bounds field that is to indicate a lower bound and an upper bound...