US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Oct. 28 for "Peer virtual machine monitoring and auto-healing system" (Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,759, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Peer virtual machine monitoring and auto-healing system" was invented by Akshay Navneetlal Mutha (Sammamish, Wash.), Eric Phillip Rodriguez (Colleyville, Texas) and Peilin Hao (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for monitoring health of virtual machines (VMs) include determining a leader virtual machine (VM) count for a group of VM nodes hosted on a plurality of computing devices; selecting a number of the VM nodes of the group to serve as leader VMs for the group, the number of the VM nodes selected correspon...