ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,310, issued on April 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Event driven intelligent hypervisor on a smart device" was invented by Derek Brewer (Bowling Green, Ohio), Robert Wilhelm (Cheyenne, Wyo.), Jon D Gullixson (Rochester, Minn.) and Paul Llamas Virgen (Guadalajara, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention discloses a computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computer system, for utilizing a hypervisor installed on a smartphone running separate virtual machines (VMs), one configured for personal use and another for work use, thereby allowing for separate operating en...