ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,718, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Nutanix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Orchestrating allocation of shared resources in a datacenter" was invented by Aman Nijhawan (Seattle), Anil Kumar Kushwah (Bengaluru, India), Avi Bhandari (San Jose, Calif.) and Jan Ralf Alexander Olderdissen (Herrenberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cluster configuration request to form a hyperconverged computing infrastructure (HCI) cluster in a cloud computing environment is processed. Based on the cluster configuration request and any other cluster specifications, a plurality of bare metal computing nodes of the cloud computing environment are c...