US Patent Issued to NetApp on July 29 for "Verification of a published image having a predefined portion that has been altered by a cloud provider prior to being made available via a marketplace of the cloud provider" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,293, issued on July 29, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Verification of a published image having a predefined portion that has been altered by a cloud provider prior to being made available via a marketplace of the cloud provider" was invented by Nan Li (San Marino, Calif.), James Silva (Bedford, Mass.), Sangramsinh Pandurang Pawar (Bedford, Mass.) and Jing Zhang (Malden, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for verifying an executable portion of a published cloud image represents an unaltered version of an executable portion of a corresponding original cloud image are provided. In one embodiment,...