US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on June 24 for "Virtual machine update while keeping devices attached to the virtual machine" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,207, issued on June 24, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Virtual machine update while keeping devices attached to the virtual machine" was invented by Kevin Michael Broas (Kirkland, Wash.), David Alan Hepkin (Redmond, Wash.), Wen Jia Liu (Seattle) and Hadden Mark Hoppert (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system running a host operating system and a virtual machine (VM). The computing system includes at least one device that is directly assigned to the VM. The computing system is configured to execute one or more first VM components and one or more second VM components. Th...