US Patent Issued to VMware on March 18 for "Endpoint incident response from a secure enclave through dynamic insertion of an interrupt" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,091, issued on March 18, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Endpoint incident response from a secure enclave through dynamic insertion of an interrupt" was invented by Mandar Nanivadekar (Pune, India), Sachin Shinde (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 detected at the endpoint, wherein the endpoint includes, in memory pages of the endpoint, an operating system (OS), a separate software entity, and remediation code, includes the steps of: transferring control of virtual CPUs (vCPUs) of the endpoint fro...