US Patent Issued to Google on Feb. 17 for "Register caching for efficient virtual machine introspection" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,526, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Register caching for efficient virtual machine introspection" was invented by Hao Zhou (Dublin, Calif.), Mahesh Pisal (Pleasanton, Calif.), Kenneth L. Hofsass (Seattle) and Timothy Dylan Peacock (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual machine malware detection service caches contents that correspond to operating system registries. By caching the content of important registers, the malware detector is able to efficiently traverse virtual machine memory contents to identify important operating system properties. Examples of such operating syste...