ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,159, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).
"Encrypted memory guest/host communication" was invented by Michael Tsirkin (Yokneam Illit, Israel) and Karen Lee Noel (Pembroke, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for enabling a Virtual Machine (VM) and hypervisor to communicate are disclosed. An example method includes sending data from a hypervisor to a virtual machine (VM) by storing, by the hypervisor, the data to an encrypted memory page of the VM, wherein the data stored by the hypervisor to the encrypted memory page is not encrypted. The method also includes processing, by the VM, th...