ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,230, issued on July 29, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Hypervisor and control device" was invented by Kazuyoshi Serizawa (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Tomohito Ebina (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hypervisor of an embedded device switches CPU resources allocated to each virtual machine. CPU cores are allocated to the respective virtual machines so as to overlap each other by an adjustment margin between the guest OSs for which the number of CPU cores needs to be adjusted. For the CPU cores allocated in an overlapping manner, a CPU time is given to only one OS (the other OS is not operated)...