US Patent Issued to Google on Aug. 5 for "User triggered virtual machine cloning for recovery/availability/scaling" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,003, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"User triggered virtual machine cloning for recovery/availability/scaling" was invented by Diwakar Gupta (Seattle) and Sirui Sun (Edmonds, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generally disclosed herein is an approach for cloning virtual machines during live migration where one or more new copies of a virtual machine can be created while the original virtual machine continues to run. The new copies can preserve a processing state, memory state, and local storage state. The new copies can also be distinguished from each other and the original by including differ...