ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,818, issued on March 18, was assigned to Loophole Labs Inc. (New York).

"Reduced downtime migration of virtualized software services" was invented by Shivansh Vij (Vancouver, Canada) and Alex Sorlie (Bergen, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are various enhancements for low downtime migration of virtualized software services across different instantiations, which may include real-time migration over different cloud/server providers and platforms, physical locations, network locations, and across different network elements. Examples herein include handling of migration of data and state for virtualized software se...