US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Oct. 20 for "Processor activity instrumentation processing for cryptographic instructions" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,552, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Processor activity instrumentation processing for cryptographic instructions" was invented by Louis P. Gomes (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Bruce Conrad Giamei (Lagrangeville, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An instruction to perform cryptographic processing is executed. Executing the instruction includes performing a plurality of operations to generate a cryptographic result. Based on performing at least multiple operations of the plurality of operations, an access exception condition for a storage location used by an instrumentation counter...