US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 11 for "Detection of malicious direct memory access device used for direct device assignment" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,340, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Detection of malicious direct memory access device used for direct device assignment" was invented by Jin Lin (Seattle), Cody Dean Hartwig (Seattle) and Jason Stewart Wohlgemuth (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Detection of malicious direct memory access (DMA) device used for direct device assignment. A virtualization computer system assigns a peripheral device to an operating context within a virtualization environment. The peripheral device is DMA capable. The virtualization computer system monitors a signal source that is affected ...