ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,236, issued on July 29, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Providing strong security boundaries in process virtual machines" was invented by Andrew James Jorgensen (Lynnwood, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for strongly isolating processes executing in a process virtual machine (PVM), to provide a security boundary similar to that provided by a system virtual machine (SVM). The PVM can include a hypervisor that supports execution of multiple processes within the PVM. The hypervisor can intermediate data resource requests from the processes and apply translation rules to such req...