US Patent Issued to NETAPP on March 18 for "Methods and systems for protecting and restoring virtual machines" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,919, issued on March 18, was assigned to NETAPP INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for protecting and restoring virtual machines" was invented by Rajaram Balakrishnan (Fremont, Calif.), Balamurali Palaiah (Gilroy, Calif.), Jayakrishnan Ramakrishna Pillai (Tracy, Calif.), Kiran Joseph D Almeida (Bengaluru, India), Negi Shardul Singh (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Vineeth Karinta (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for protecting virtual machines is provided. One method includes discovering, by a first plugin, from a virtual machine ("VM") management system, a plurality of VMs that share a logical data ...