US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Feb. 24 for "Live updating a virtual machine virtualizing physical resources" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,154, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Live updating a virtual machine virtualizing physical resources" was invented by Douglas Griffith (Round Rock, Texas), Anil Kalavakolanu (Austin, Texas), Peter J. Heyrman (Rochester, Minn.), James A. Pafumi (Leander, Texas), Vani D. Ramagiri (Austin, Texas) and Alexandre Blancke (Carpentras, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For a first virtual machine (VM) executing in a physical machine, a second VM is instantiated in the physical machine, the first VM using a physical adapter installed in the physical machine, the first VM virtualizi...