ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,480, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Technologies for trusted I/O with a channel identifier filter and processor-based cryptographic engine" was invented by Reshma Lal (Portland, Ore.), Gideon Gerzon (Zichron Yaakov, Israel), Baruch Chaikin (Misagv, Israel), Siddhartha Chhabra (Portland, Ore.), Pradeep M. Pappachan (Tualatin, Ore.) and Bin Xing (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies for trusted I/O include a computing device having a processor, a channel identifier filter, and an I/O controller. The I/O controller may generate an I/O transaction that includes a channel id...