ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,719, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Deferred reclaiming of secure guest resources" was invented by Claudio Imbrenda (Boeblingen, Germany), Christian Borntraeger (Stuttgart, Germany), Janosch Andreas Frank (Stuttgart, Germany) and Jonathan D. Bradbury (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Deferred reclaiming of secure guest resources within a computing environment is provided, which includes initiating, by a host of the computing environment, removal of a secure guest from the computing environment, while leaving one or more resources of the secure guest to be re...