ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,950, issued on Aug. 5.
"Updating virtual images of computing environments" was invented by John Victor Baboval II (Littleton, Mass.) and Thomas Carl Goetz (Wareham, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for allowing for incremental updates to remote localized copies of disk images (e.g., virtual machine images) are described. In some implementations, the disk images are block-based. The incremental updates may be done in a bi-directional manner across different platforms such that an update to any platform may be prepared for any of the other platforms. Preparation of updates between platforms may be accomplished th...