US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 27 for "Hierarchical virtualization" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,482, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Hierarchical virtualization" was invented by Alexander Daniel Grest (Redmond, Wash.), David Alan Hepkin (Redmond, Wash.), Bruce J. Sherwin Jr. (Woodinville, Wash.), Matthew Jordan Sebek (Bellevue, Wash.), Sai Ganesh Ramachandran (Sammamish, Wash.) and Xin David Zhang (Duvall, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hierarchical virtualization creates a child guest partition that shares a hypervisor with a parent guest partition. A hypervisor receives a request, from a first guest partition that operates at the hypervisor, to create a second gue...