ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,807, issued on March 11, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods, apparatus, systems, and instructions to migrate protected virtual machines" was invented by Ravi Sahita (Portland, Ore.), Dror Caspi (Kiryat Yam, Israel), Vincent Scarlata (Beaverton, Ore.), Sharon Yaniv (Kiryat Tivon, Israel), Baruch Chaikin (D.N. Misagv, Israel), Vedvyas Shanbhogue (Austin, Texas), Jun Nakajima (San Ramon, Calif.), Arumugam Thiyagarajah (Folsom, Calif.), Sean Christopherson (Portland, Ore.), Haidong Xia (Folsom, Calif.), Vinay Awasthi (San Francisco), Isaku Yamahata (Urayasu, Japan), Wei Wang (Shanghai) and Thomas Adelmeyer (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by th...