US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 15 for "Managing updates on virtual machine systems" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,796, issued on July 15, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Managing updates on virtual machine systems" was invented by Govind Ramaswamy (Lynnwood, Wash.), Murali Mohan Chintalapati (Bellevue, Wash.), Yingnong Dang (Sammamish, Wash.), Daniele Maso (Redmond, Wash.), Pritesh Patwa (Redmond, Wash.), Najam Shahid (Redmond, Wash.), Ravikiran Janardhan Reddy (Bothell, Wash.) and Arun Kishan (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for determining optimal index configurations for intelligently managing updates of virtual...