ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,376, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Machine readable policy for register access permissions" was invented by Nathan Yong Seng Chong (Ponte Vedra, Fla.), Ali Ghassan Saidi (Austin, Texas) and Andreea Florescu (Palma de Mallorca, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine readable policy generated from a policy specification may be obtained. The machine readable policy may specify an exit reason for a virtual processor (vCPU) to exit execution on a host computing system and a set of register access permissions associated with the exit reason. Upon the vCPU exiting for the exit reason, a sepa...