US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on Aug. 5 for "Memory coherence in virtualized environments" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,951, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Memory coherence in virtualized environments" was invented by Marjan Radi (San Jose, Calif.) and Dejan Vucinic (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Virtual Switching (VS) kernel module manages different flows of packets between at least one Virtual Machine (VM) running at a node and one or more other VMs running at the node or at one or more other nodes in a network. A packet is received from a first VM using the VS kernel module and is parsed to identify a memory message and an address for at least one memory block stored in a ...