US Patent Issued to Intel on March 17 for "Telemetry restriction mechanism" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,924, issued on March 17, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Telemetry restriction mechanism" was invented by Luis Kida (Beaverton, Ore.), Neerav Parikh (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Reshma Lal (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising a network interface card (NIC), including packet processing circuitry to determine whether the NIC is to operate according to a first telemetry protection mode to prevent copying of packet data payloads for telemetry or a second telemetry protection mode to enable copying of packet payloads for telemetry."

The patent was filed on Dec. 22, 2021, under Application N...