ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,916, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Paging support for encrypted GPU buffers" was invented by Vidhya Krishnan (Folsom, Calif.), Siddhartha Chhabra (Portland, Ore.), Vedvyas Shanbhogue (Austin, Texas), Xiaoyu Ruan (Folsom, Calif.), Aditya Navale (Folsom, Calif.) and Julien Carreno (El Dorado Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a paging technique that can be implemented in any accelerator with attached memory and support for operating on encrypted data when the CPU is not within the trusted compute base (TCB). Memory storing data that is encrypted using hardware physi...