ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,126, issued on July 14, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatuses, methods, and systems for instructions to allow trusted execution environments to react to asynchronous exits" was invented by Scott Constable (Portland, Ore.), Mark Shanahan (Raleigh, N.C.), Mona Vij (Hillsboro, Ore.), Bin Xing (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Krystof Zmudzinski (Forest Grove, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to an instruction that allows a trusted execution environment to react to an asynchronous exit are described. In one embodiment, a hardware processor includes a register comprising a field,...