US Patent Issued to Intel on Oct. 20 for "Apparatus and method for flexible processor security and authenticated code execution" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,821, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for flexible processor security and authenticated code execution" was invented by Alexander Eydelberg (Daly City, Calif.), Salessawi Ferede Yitbarek (Hillsboro, Ore.), David B. Sheffield (Portland, Ore.) and Xiang Zou (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for improved processor security and authenticated code execution. For example, one embodiment of a processor comprises: a secure memory to store an authenticated code module (ACM); and security hardware logic to select a mode of operation for processing t...