US Patent Issued to The Boeing on March 4 for "System and method of timekeeping for a virtual machine having multiple virtual processing cores" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,876, issued on March 4, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"System and method of timekeeping for a virtual machine having multiple virtual processing cores" was invented by Timothy James Dale (St. Louis), Glenn Alan Patterson (St. Louis), Jonathan Nicholas Hotra (Maryland Heights, Mo.) and Craig H. Sowadski (House Springs, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A host computer for virtualizing a target multicore processor includes a host CPU and a host memory storing a virtual time object and a VM, the VM including target code. The host CPU executes the plurality of threads in parallel on corresponding virtual cores, includ...