ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,898, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Secured peripheral device communication via bridge device in virtualized computer system" was invented by Michael Tsirkin (Yokne'am Illit, Israel) and Amnon Ilan (Raanana, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for secured peripheral device communication via a bridge device in virtualized computer systems. An example method may comprise receiving, by a virtualized execution environment running on a computing system, a state measurement associated with a bridge device of the computing system; generating an ephemeral key; responsive to validating th...