ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,466, issued on April 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Operating a secure code segment on a processor core of a processing unit" was invented by Cedric Lichtenau (Stuttgart, Germany), Jakob Christopher Lang (Walddorfhaslach, Germany), Eberhard Pasch (Tuebingen, Germany) and Christian Borntraeger (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, a computer system and a computer program product operate a secure code segment on a processor core of a processing unit, wherein the processing unit is configured with at least one processor core. The method comprises re...