US Patent Issued to Nutanix on March 25 for "Systems and methods for transparently detecting unencrypted virtual machine I/O" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,982, issued on March 25, was assigned to Nutanix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for transparently detecting unencrypted virtual machine I/O" was invented by Carl Alan Waldspurger (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Bijan Mottahedeh (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, an apparatus includes a processor and a memory. In some embodiments, the memory includes programmed instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the apparatus to intercept an I/O transaction between a virtual machine and an I/O device, determine whether data in the I/O transaction indicates a security misconfiguration, and p...