ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,888, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Red Hat LLC (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Denial of service protection for confidential computing" was invented by Michael Tsirkin (Ra'anana, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An execution measurement event associated with a Virtual Machine (VM) managed by a hypervisor is detected, wherein the VM is implemented using a first processor device of one or more processor devices. Responsive to detecting the execution measurement event, execution measurement information descriptive of a period of execution for the VM prior to detection of the execution measurement event is measured using the first processor ...