ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,563, issued on April 7, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Physical hardware device access via emulation" was invented by Sundareswaram Pallan Viswanathan (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtualization system may receive, by a physical hardware device driver of a kernel of a guest OS of the virtualization system and from a process of the guest OS, one or more control messages to control a physical hardware device. The virtualization system may determine, by the physical hardware device driver and based on the second-type physical hardware device address included in the one or more control m...