US Patent Issued to Intel on June 30 for "Memory safety with single memory tag per allocation" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,947, issued on June 30, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Memory safety with single memory tag per allocation" was invented by David M. Durham (Beaverton, Ore.), Michael LeMay (Hillsboro, Ore.), Sergej Deutsch (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Dan Baum (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor includes a register to store an encoded pointer for a memory address within a first memory allocation of a plurality of memory allocations in a memory region of a memory. The processor further includes circuitry to receive a memory operation request based on the encoded pointer and to obtain a first tag of a plurality of t...