US Patent Issued to Intel on Aug. 11 for "Circuitry and methods for implementing capability-based compartment switches with descriptors" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,991, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Circuitry and methods for implementing capability-based compartment switches with descriptors" was invented by Michael LeMay (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses for implementing capability-based compartment switches with descriptors 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 and a bounds field that is to indicate a lower bound and an upper bound of an address ra...