US Patent Issued to Google on Sept. 15 for "Flexible memory management for virtual machines" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,213, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Flexible memory management for virtual machines" was invented by Vaibhav Balwant Nagarnaik (Santa Clara, Calif.), Rahul Chaturvedi (Mountain View, Calif.) and Steven Aaron Richman (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual machine monitor (VMM) of a computing system may provide flexible memory management for guest virtual machines (guest VMs). The VMM may allocate a flexible amount of memory that is accessible to a guest VM. A guest VM may be configured, such as by VMM, to utilize a larger fixed amount of guest memory. A memory access error ma...