ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,125, issued on July 29, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Randomization-based protection for memory deduplication" was invented by Michael Tsirkin (Westford, Mass.) and Uri Lublin (Ra'anana, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses for managing memory usage in virtualized computing environments are provided herein. An example method includes generating a random key, associating the key with a page or range of pages in a memory, and selectively deduplicating pages based upon the key associated with each respective page."

The patent was filed on May 31, 2023, under Application No. 18/204,076...