ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,578, issued on March 24, was assigned to Parallels International GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"System and method for virtualization-assisted debugging" was invented by Andrey Stupachenko (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for debugging program code using a computing system. The disclosed method includes designating a control point in a software application subject to a debugging procedure, and then executing the program code for the software application as a guest application executing within a virtual machine. Upon detection of a virtualization event, the hardware processor transfers progr...