ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,496, issued on April 14, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Commands communications" was invented by Adrian Laurence Shaw (Bristol, Great Britain), Remy Husson (Bristol, Great Britain), Adrian John Baldwin (Bristol, Great Britain), Joshua Serratelli Schiffman (Washington) and Christopher Ian Dalton (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, a hypervisor measuring the state of a protected virtual machine using a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) filter. Using the TPM filter, the system ensures an untrusted operating system attempting to access the TPM is secure, without having ...