US Patent Issued to Red Hat on Feb. 17 for "Tracking cloud installation information using cloud-aware kernel of operating system" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,608, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Red Hat LLC (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Tracking cloud installation information using cloud-aware kernel of operating system" was invented by Christopher Edwin Morgan (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A kernel of a guest operating system receives a cloud identifier that identifies a host cloud in which the guest operating system is installed. The kernel determines duration information indicative of a length of time the guest operating system operates in the host cloud. The kernel stores the cloud identifier and the duration information in a kernel hosting record of the kernel of the guest ope...