ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,432, issued on April 15, was assigned to Pensando Systems Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for using a peripheral device to assist virtual machine IO memory access tracking" was invented by Chaitanya Huilgol (Bangalore, India), J. Bradley Smith (San Jose, Calif.), Allen Hubbe (Durham, N.C.), Balakrishnan Raman (Fremont, Calif.), Harinadh Nagulapalli (San Jose, Calif.), Krishna Doddapaneni (Cupertino, Calif.), Murty Subba Rama Chandra Kotha (San Jose, Calif.) and Varada Raja Kumar Kari (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "SR-IOV (single root IO virtualization) capable PCIe devices can implement virtual function...