US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices, ATI TECHNOLOGIES on Feb. 3 for "Secure memory access in a virtualized computing environment" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,464, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) and ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Secure memory access in a virtualized computing environment" was invented by Anthony Asaro (Markham, Canada), Jeffrey G. Cheng (Markham, Canada) and Anirudh R. Acharya (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor supports secure memory access in a virtualized computing environment by employing requestor identifiers at bus devices (such as a graphics processing unit) to identify the virtual machine associated with each memory access request. The virtualized computing environment uses the request...