ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,696, issued on May 27, was assigned to Nutanix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Multi-cloud licensed software deployment" was invented by Mohan Maturi (San Jose, Calif.), Nitin Parab (Palo Alto, Calif.), Vidhi Taneja (Cupertino, Calif.) and Binny Sher Gill (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer program products for flexible virtualization system deployment into different cloud computing environments. A set of floating licenses to virtualization system software components is established. The set of floating licenses are configured to permit usage of the virtualization system software components on dif...