ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,963, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"User-level interrupts in virtual machines" was invented by Sanjay Kumar (Hillsboro, Ore.), Philip R. Lantz (Cornelius, Ore.), Rajesh M. Sankaran (Portland, Ore.), Gilbert Neiger (Portland, Ore.) and Rupin H. Vakharwala (Hillsboro, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises a physical processor to execute a virtual machine manager to run, on a logical core, a virtual machine including a guest user application and a virtual CPU. Circuitry coupled to an external device is to receive an interrupt request from the external device for the guest user app...