US Patent Issued to VMware on July 22 for "Scaling a host virtual counter and timer in a virtualized computer system" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,057, issued on July 22, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Scaling a host virtual counter and timer in a virtualized computer system" was invented by Regis Duchesne (Monts-de-Corsier, Switzerland), Andrei Warkentin (South Elgin, Ill.), Cyprien Laplace (Boston), Ye Li (Cambridge, Mass.), Shruthi Muralidhara Hiriyuru (Medford, Mass.), Alexander Fainkichen (Southborough, Mass.) and Sunil Kumar Kotian (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of virtualizing a host virtual counter and timer in a central processing unit (CPU) of a virtualized host computer includes: creating, by a hypervisor of the h...