US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Dec. 2 for "Bonding multiple peripheral ports to a single virtual machine" (Israeli, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,846, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Bonding multiple peripheral ports to a single virtual machine" was invented by Said Bshara (Tira, Israel), Evgeny Schmeilin (Haifa, Israel), Filippo Sironi (Dresden, Germany) and Benjamin Serebrin (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input/output (I/O) device is coupled to a processor via a first peripheral bus and a second peripheral bus. The I/O device is configured to expose a first physical function (PF) and a second PF to a virtual machine (VM) executing on the processor. A first virtual function (VF) associated with the first PF is assign...