US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 21 for "Data-at-rest protection for virtual machines" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,217, issued on April 21, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Data-at-rest protection for virtual machines" was invented by Jin Lin (Seattle), David Alan Hepkin (Redmond, Wash.), Michael Bishop Ebersol (Woodinville, Wash.), Matthew David Kurjanowicz (Wenatchee, Wash.) and Taylor Alan Hope (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data-at-rest protection for virtual machines includes operating a data protection component within a first privilege context of a guest partition, and operating a guest operating system (OS) within a second privilege context of the guest partition. The data protection c...