ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,657, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Virtualization-based platform protection technology" was invented by Rajesh P. Banginwar (Bangalore, India), Sumanth Naropanth (Bangalore, India), Sunil K. Notalapati Prabhakara (Bangalore, India), Surendra K. Singh (Bangalore, India), Arvind Mohan (Bangalore, India), Ravi L. Sahita (Portland, Ore.), Rahil Malhotra (Bangalore, India), Aman Bakshi (Bangalore, India), Vasudevarao Kamma (Bangalore, India), Jyothi Nayak (Bangalore, India), Vivek Thakkar (Bangalore, India) and Royston A. Pinto (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing syst...