ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,429, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).
"Memory deduplication for encrypted virtual machines" was invented by Michael Tsirkin (Yokneam Illit, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Memory deduplication for encrypted virtual machines is provided by identifying a page in a private memory of an encrypted virtual machine to place into a public memory in a virtualization environment; calculating a checksum for the page and storing the checksum in the private memory of the encrypted virtual machine; passing the page to a hypervisor of the virtualization environment to place into the public memory; calling the p...