US Patent Issued to VMware on June 24 for "Endpoint isolation and incident response from a secure enclave" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,956, issued on June 24, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Endpoint isolation and incident response from a secure enclave" was invented by Sachin Shinde (Pune, India), Mandar Nanivadekar (Pune, India) and Bharath Kumar Chandrasekhar (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of protecting an endpoint against a security threat, wherein the endpoint includes an OS and a separate software entity included in memory pages of the endpoint, includes the steps of: preventing the OS from scheduling any tasks on vCPUs of the endpoint by transferring control of the vCPUs from the OS to the separate software entity;...