US Patent Issued to Red Hat on June 30 for "Time-shift support for encrypted virtual machines" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,005, issued on June 30, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Time-shift support for encrypted virtual machines" was invented by Michael Tsirkin (Westford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for secure saving sand restoration of virtualized states is disclosed herein, wherein a guest and/or a virtual machine is aware of being executed from a restored snapshot. An example system comprises a hypervisor; an application running in an encrypted virtual machine; a memory; a processor in communication with the memory executing an application, wherein the application is configured to modify, by an application r...