US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 8 for "Hardware virtualized TPM into virtual machines" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,374, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Hardware virtualized TPM into virtual machines" was invented by Md. Nazmus Sakib (Seattle), Ronald Aigner (Redmond, Wash.), Ling Tony Chen (Bellevue, Wash.), Peter David Waxman (Seattle), David Guy Weston (Seattle) and Bryan David Kelly (Carnation, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer-readable storage mediums described herein enable executable code of a hardware security platform (HSP) circuit to communicate with a hypervisor in a separate processor. The hypervisor generates and manages virtual mac...