US Patent Issued to Nutanix on July 22 for "Selecting a witness service when implementing a recovery plan" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,117, issued on July 22, was assigned to Nutanix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Selecting a witness service when implementing a recovery plan" was invented by Ankush Jindal (Bengaluru, India), Kiran Tatiparthi (Dublin, Calif.), Sharad Maheshwari (Benagaluru, India), Shubham Gupta (Etah, India) and Bharat Kumar Beedu (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer program products for selection of a witness during virtualization system recovery after a disaster event. A recovery plan is configured to identify a witness that is then used to elect a leader to implement the recovery. Various system, and/or ne...