US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on March 17 for "Virtual machine register in a computer processor" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,984, issued on March 17, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Virtual machine register in a computer processor" was invented by Steven Jeffrey Wallach (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to a virtual machine register in a computer processor are described. For example, a memory coupled to the computer processor can store instructions of routines of predefined, non-hierarchical domains. The computer processor can store, in the virtual machine register, an identifier of a virtual machine for which the processor is currently executing instructions in a current domain in the...