US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Aug. 12 for "Preserving changes when reverting back to a snapshot" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,711, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Preserving changes when reverting back to a snapshot" was invented by Benjamin Graham Thompson (Eastleigh, Great Britain), Mark James Lawrence (Eastleigh, Great Britain), Erhan Mengusoglu (Southampton, Great Britain) and Stephen James Haskey (Chandlers Ford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method, system, and computer program product for preserving actions taken after a snapshot. One embodiment of the method may comprise capturing a snapshot of a virtualized container environment (VCE), the VCE comprising one or ...