US Patent Issued to Intel on Sept. 2 for "Securely exposing an accelerator to privileged system components" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,764, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Securely exposing an accelerator to privileged system components" was invented by Joshua Fender (East York, Canada), Utkarsh Y. Kakaiya (Folsom, Calif.), Mohan Nair (Portland, Ore.), Brian Morris (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Pratik Marolia (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments are generally directed to securing systems that include hardware accelerators, such as FPGA-based accelerators, and privileged system components. Some embodiments may provide a security broker. In various embodiments, the security broker may provide interfaces...