ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,757, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Hypervisor-managed linear address translation and memory integrity" was invented by Ravi L. Sahita (Portland, Ore.) and Kunal Mehta (Hillsboro, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus provides a processor configured to execute instructions of a hypervisor to provide hypervisor-managed linear address translation (HLAT) with integrity protection. The processor is to execute the instructions to select a first key identifier for a first virtual machine to run on the hypervisor, invoke a first platform configuration instruction to configure the first key ...