US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 17 for "Protecting user data during virtual machine initialization" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,375, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Protecting user data during virtual machine initialization" was invented by Qi Feng Huo (Beijing), Yuan Yuan Wang (Beijing), Da Li Liu (Beijing), Yan Song Liu (Beijing) and Lei Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "User data security is provided. Encrypted user data are identified in a virtual machine. A private key of a public/private cryptographic key pair corresponding to a user is retrieved. The encrypted user data is decrypted within the virtual machine utilizing the private key corresponding to the user to form decrypted user dat...