US Patent Issued to Intel on March 17 for "Speculating object-granular key identifiers for memory safety" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,078, issued on March 17, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Speculating object-granular key identifiers for memory safety" was invented by Michael LeMay (Hillsboro, Ore.) and David M. Durham (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor core requests a cacheline to be loaded from a memory in a memory access request; and a cache determines a speculated color value for the memory access request, receives a data granule of the cacheline from the memory, and decrypts data of the data granule using the speculated color value."

The patent was filed on Aug. 12, 2022, under Application No. 17/886,981.

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