US Patent Issued to Red Hat on April 21 for "Secured peripheral device communication in virtualized computer system" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,811, issued on April 21, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Secured peripheral device communication in virtualized computer system" was invented by Michael Tsirkin (Yokne'am Illit, Israel) and Amnon Ilan (Raanana, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for securing assigned peripheral device in virtualized computer system. An example method may comprise receiving, by a virtualized execution environment, a state measurement associated with a peripheral device of the computing system. Generating a guest cryptographic key. Responsive to validating the state measurement, transmitting, to the peripheral dev...