US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 19 for "Enclave cloning" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,538, issued on May 19, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Enclave cloning" was invented by Alexander Shamis (Cambridge, Great Britain), Yoshimichi Nakatsuka (Irvine, Calif.), Peter Robert Pietzuch (Cambridge, Great Britain), Andrew James Paverd (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Ercan Ozturk (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A source enclave of a source application includes: at least one process thread; a respective at least one process stack memory; a heap memory; and a thread context area. An interrupt is sent to the source enclave which causes the process thread to exit. A migrator thread...