US Patent Issued to Red Hat on Oct. 28 for "Coordinating timer access for virtual machines using peripheral component interface cards" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,755, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Coordinating timer access for virtual machines using peripheral component interface cards" was invented by Michael Tsirkin (Haifa, Israel) and Amnon Ilan (Raanana, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Peripheral component interface (PCI) cards can be used to coordinate timer access for virtual machines. For example, a computing device can send, by a virtual machine deployed by a hypervisor, a request for a timer. A guest driver can write a timer for the virtual machine into a first portion of memory on a PCI card. The first portion of memory can be mapped to the ...