US Patent Issued to The Research Foundation for The State University of New York on Nov. 3 for "Multi-hypervisor virtual machines" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,283, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Binghamton, N.Y.).

"Multi-hypervisor virtual machines" was invented by Yaohui Hu (Binghamton, N.Y.) and Kartik Gopalan (Vestal, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Standard nested virtualization allows a hypervisor to run other hypervisors as guests, i.e. a level-0 (L0) hypervisor can run multiple level-1 (L1) hypervisors, each of which can run multiple level-2 (L2) virtual machines (VMs), with each L2 VM is restricted to run on only one L1 hypervisor. Span provides a Multi-hypervisor VM in which a single VM can simultaneously run on m...