US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 8 for "Extending secure guest metadata to bind the secure guest to a hardware security module" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,469, issued on April 8, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Extending secure guest metadata to bind the secure guest to a hardware security module" was invented by Reinhard Theodor Buendgen (Tuebingen, Germany) and Jonathan D. Bradbury (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, and computer program product implement a three-factor authorization in a trusted computing environment. The method includes triggering, by a hypervisor, a start of a secure guest by passing control regarding an image of the secure guest and metadata of the secure guest to a trusted firmware, where th...