ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,951, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Direct mode for virtualization" was invented by Abdulla Ahmad Kamar (Sydney).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A direct mode is provided for virtualization to enable simultaneous operation of different operating systems. A compatibility layer operates as a translator between instructions for the kernel of the host operating system running on device hardware and a guest operating system running in a virtual machine. A single layer of scheduling is employed via a host scheduler to support more optimal scheduling for the guest code. This approach supports running u...