US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 7 for "Provisioning secure/encrypted virtual machines in a cloud infrastructure" (Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,118, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Provisioning secure/encrypted virtual machines in a cloud infrastructure" was invented by Guerney D. H. Hunt (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Dimitrios Pendarakis (Westport, Conn.), Kenneth Alan Goldman (Norwalk, Conn.), Elaine R. Palmer (Hanover, N.H.) and Ramachandra Pai (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system and apparatus for generating a computation such that it will execute in a target trusted execution environment (TEE), including selecting the target TEE, generating an authorization that is satisfied by a TEE, associ...