ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,555, issued on May 19, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Virtual machine attestation report enhancement via countersigning" was invented by Benjamin Serebrin (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for virtual machine attestation report enhancement via countersigning are described. Upon receiving an attestation report signed by a security processor of a computing device hosting a guest virtual machine in a cloud provider system, the hypervisor can countersign the attestation report to provide further assurance as to the legitimacy of the attestation report and the presence of the computing devic...