MUMBAI, India, Sept. 12 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517079922 A) filed by Advanced Micro Devices, Inc; and Ati Technologies Ulc, Santa Clara, U.S.A., on Aug. 22, for 'secure management of device control information in confidential computing environments.'

Inventor(s) include Ng, Philip; Raval, Nippon; Powell, Jeremy W.; Matthews Jr. Donald; and Kaplan, David.

The application for the patent was published on Sept. 12, under issue no. 37/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A processor (100) includes a security processor (110) and an input-output memory management unit (IOMMU) (112). The security processor is configured to maintain device control information (122-2) in a secure data structure (120-2) and prevent a hypervisor (116) from accessing the secure data structure. The IOMMU is configured to process at least one device request (124) targeting a virtual machine (114) from an input/output device (124) based on the secure data structure."

The patent application was internationally filed on Jan. 08, 2024, under International application No.PCT/US2024/010689.

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