US Patent Issued to Intel on Dec. 2 for "Apparatus, computer-readable medium, and method for reducing bounds checking overhead by instrumenting pointer arithmetic" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,822, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus, computer-readable medium, and method for reducing bounds checking overhead by instrumenting pointer arithmetic" was invented by Michael Lemay (Beaverton, Ore.) and David M. Durham (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed that perform bounds checking on authorized memory allocations during pointer arithmetic. In some examples, instruction decode circuitry decodes an update pointer instruction for a pointer. In some examples, bounds checking circuitry determines an authorized...