ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,388, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Kernel protection system" was invented by Chih-Hsiang Hsiao (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Pei-Lun Suei (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yu-Chi Chu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for kernel protection includes a processor and a transmission interface. The processor is arranged to execute at least one guest virtual machine (VM), at least one primary VM, and a hypervisor. The at least one guest VM is arranged to send at least one command to a command hub. The at least one primary VM is arranged to manage and configure a safety setting according to the at least o...