US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on July 22 for "Systems and methods for disabling faulty cores using proxy virtual machines" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,119, issued on July 22, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for disabling faulty cores using proxy virtual machines" was invented by Srilatha Manne (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for disabling faulty cores using proxy virtual machines includes a processor, a faulty core, and a physical memory. The processor is responsible for executing a hypervisor that is configured to assign a proxy virtual machine to the faulty core. The assigned proxy virtual machine also includes a minimal workload. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also d...