US Patent Issued to Red Hat on Aug. 25 for "Extended page table for encrypted virtual machines" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,605, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Red Hat LLC (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Extended page table for encrypted virtual machines" was invented by Michael Tsirkin (Yokneam Illit, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed herein generates, by a virtual machine running on a host computer system, a plurality of direct guest physical addresses, maps each guest virtual address of a plurality of guest virtual addresses to a direct guest physical address of the plurality of direct guest physical addresses, and updates, for each guest virtual address to direct guest physical address mapping, an entry of a shadow page table with t...