US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on July 7 for "Secure virtualized performance monitoring counters" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,566, issued on July 7, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Secure virtualized performance monitoring counters" was invented by David Kaplan (Austin, Texas) and Ruchir Dalal (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system includes a memory configured to store encrypted information representing state and control information for a guest virtual machine. The processing system further includes a processor configured to selectively reserve exclusive use of a set of performance monitoring counters by the guest virtual machine during execution of the guest virtual machine based on a state of a...