US Patent Issued to Intel on June 9 for "Device virtualization techniques" (Oregon, New Jersey, California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,940, issued on June 9, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Device virtualization techniques" was invented by Filip Schmole (Portland, Ore.), Ryan Holmqvist (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Kapil Karkra (Chandler, Ariz.), Orden Smith (Chandler, Ariz.), Nicholas Adams (Beaverton, Ore.) and Vinay Raghav (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Device virtualization techniques can enable physical I/O devices (such as PCIe devices or other I/O devices) to appear as virtual I/O devices, while also enabling selective exposure of information regarding the physical I/O devices to enable the native drivers of the physical I/O device...