ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,955, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Virtual storage appliance with virtual disk instances for backend non-volatile data storage" was invented by Dmitry Vladimirovich Krivenok (Dublin) and Amitai Alkalay (Kadima, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multiple virtual disk instances are created, each of which is a virtual machine. Each one of the virtual disk instances aggregates non-volatile data storage of cloud storage volumes that are directly attached to it into a single logical volume. A sub-network is created that connects the virtual disk instances to a network interface of each one of...