US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 30 for "User-controlled firmware for hosted virtual machines" (Washington, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,160, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"User-controlled firmware for hosted virtual machines" was invented by Gangadhara Swamy Shivaganga Nagaraju (Kirkland, Wash.), Pushkar Vijay Chitnis (Bothell, Wash.), Bo Zhang (Raleigh, N.C.) and Amar Nad Rudra Gowda (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method includes receiving first firmware information at a hosting environment identifying that a user has selected user-controlled firmware for user virtual machines to be hosted on the hosting environment. A copy of the user-controlled firmware is obtained...