ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,183, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Snapshot based pool of virtual resources for efficient development and test of hyper-converged infrastructure environments" was invented by Yuxin Qin (Shanghai), Xiaoyu Zhang (Shanghai), Chenjie Zhou (Shanghai) and Xiang Chen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disclosed method for developing and testing a hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) platform creates a snapshot pool with one or more virtual resource snapshots that include one or more virtual node snapshots, one or more virtual cluster snapshots, or both. The snapshot pool may be maintaine...