ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,766, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Efficient exception handling in trusted execution environments" was invented by Scott Constable (Portland, Ore.), Bin Xing (Hillsboro, Ore.), Yuan Xiao (Columbus, Ohio), Krystof Zmudzinski (Forest Grove, Ore.), Mona Vij (Hillsboro, Ohio), Mark Shanahan (Raleigh, N.C.), Francis McKeen (Portland, Ore.) and Ittai Anati (Ramat Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating efficient exception handling in trusted execution environments are described. In an embodiment, a hardware processor includes a register, a decoder, an...