ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,716, issued on March 31, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for secure execution on smart network interface cards" was invented by Kshitij Doshi (Tempe, Ariz.) and Francesc Guim Bernat (Barcelona, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for secure execution on smart network interface cards. An example non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed, cause a processor to at least: obtain instructions for execution, decode the instructions, execute the decoded instructions, determine an executi...