ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,745, issued on June 17, was assigned to Nutanix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Distributed package management using meta-scheduling" was invented by Connor Patric Doyle (San Francisco), Thomas Rampelberg (San Francisco), Cody Maloney (San Francisco) and Jose Armando Garcia Sancio (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for package management includes an interface and a processor. The interface is to receive an indication to install a package. The processor is to determine a configured package using a set local configuration properties and using the package and to launch, using a metascheduler, a set of subschedulers to inst...