US Patent Issued to VMware on Oct. 7 for "Loading management hypervisors from a system control processor" (Illinois, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,789, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Loading management hypervisors from a system control processor" was invented by Andrei Warkentin (South Elgin, Ill.) and Sunil Kotian (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are various examples of loading management hypervisors from a system control processor. In some examples, a host device executes a first stage bootloader of a management hypervisor from a system control processor. The first stage bootloader loads management hypervisor data and firmware instructions into a main processor memory of a main processor, and initializes the main pr...