ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,489, issued on June 2, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Programmable integrated circuit configured as a remote trust anchor to support multitenancy" was invented by Steffen Schulz (Darmstadt, Germany), Patrick Koeberl (Portland, Ore.), Alpa Narendra Trivedi (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Scott Weber (Piedmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multitenancy system that includes a host provider, a programmable device, and multiple tenants is provided. The host provider may publish a multitenancy mode sharing and allocation policy that includes a list of terms to which the programmable device and tenants can adhere. The p...