US Patent Issued to Red Hat on Sept. 29 for "Delaying interrupts for virtual machines" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,610, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Delaying interrupts for virtual machines" was invented by Michael Tsirkin (Yokneam, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device can detect an interrupt associated with a virtual machine. Based on detecting the interrupt, the computing device can determine whether the virtual machine is in an idle state. Based on determining that the virtual machine is in the idle state, the computing device can delay the interrupt by storing the interrupt in an interrupt register for a period of time and preventing the interrupt from being transmitted to the virtual...