US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on June 16 for "Life cycle management for device input/output interfaces in virtualized environments" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,047, issued on June 16, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Life cycle management for device input/output interfaces in virtualized environments" was invented by Jeremy W. Powell (Austin, Texas) and David Kaplan (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A security module of a processor manages the lifecycle of device interfaces of input/output (I/O) devices within a virtualization environment in a secure and trusted manner. For example, the security module is configured to bind a device interface of an I/O device interface to a virtual machine (VM). Responsive to the device interface being bound, t...