ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,285, issued on May 19, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Wireless network authentication by a trusted virtual machine" was invented by Abhilasha Bhargav-Spantzel (Santa Clara, Calif.), Michael Glik (Kfar Saba, Israel), Matan Levy (Zur Moshe, Israel), Ned M. Smith (Beaverton, Ore.) and Izoslav Tchigevsky (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for a virtual machine executing on a host device to establish a secured wireless connection and control a wireless network device without being exposed to the wireless network credentials are provided. A supplicant proxy is provided at the virtual machi...