US Patent Issued to Red Hat on Dec. 9 for "Memory deduplication for encrypted virtual machines" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,564, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Memory deduplication for encrypted virtual machines" was invented by Michael Tsirkin (Yokneam, Israel) and Andrea Arcangeli (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Memory deduplication for encrypted virtual machines can be performed according to some examples. In one example, a virtual machine can select a target memory page stored in an encrypted memory of the virtual machine. The encrypted memory can be inaccessible to a hypervisor configured to manage the virtual machine. The virtual machine can store a copy of the target memory page to a shared memory that is a...