US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Feb. 11 for "Virtual machine for developing and testing target code for hardware designs" (Missouri Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,222,842, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Virtual machine for developing and testing target code for hardware designs" was invented by Jonathan Nicholas Hotra (Maryland Heights, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A host computer includes a memory storing a proxy VM, and a host CPU. The proxy VM emulates target hardware having an incomplete design. The proxy VM includes a virtual processor for emulating a target processor. The proxy VM includes an emulated memory coupled to the virtual processor over a virtual memory bus. The emulated memory includes at least one portion storing the target code. The hos...