ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,134, issued on July 15, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Secure launch for a hypervisor" was invented by Aditya Bhandari (Seattle), Bruce J. Sherwin Jr. (Woodinville, Wash.) and Luis Hernandez (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure generally relates to securely launching a hypervisor and subsequently validating that the hypervisor was securely launched. As is described herein, once a hypervisor has been initialized or has otherwise launched, a verification operation is performed. The verification operation may be used to ensure that the hypervisor was securely launched. When it is...