US Patent Issued to Nutanix on Feb. 3 for "Parallel change file tracking in a distributed file server virtual machine (FSVM) architecture" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,431, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Nutanix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Parallel change file tracking in a distributed file server virtual machine (FSVM) architecture" was invented by Kalpesh Ashok Bafna (Milpitas, Calif.), Jayapaul Paul (Bangalore, India), Abhinav Radheshyam Tiwari (Bangalore, India) and Sanjeev Manohar Bagewadi (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method for implementing parallel Change File Tracking (CFT) between a distributed File Server Virtual Machine (FSVM) system and a scale-out backup system using underlying snapshot technology. The FSVM system executes efficient assignments of backup ...