ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,208, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Nutanix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for increased security in cluster formation" was invented by Alay Vyomeshbhai Shah (San Jose, Calif.), Alexander Michael Bunch (San Jose, Calif.), Sandeep Goutele (Bangalore, India) and Toms Varghese (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus may include one or more processors and non-transitory, computer-readable instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive, using a first security model, an indication to form a cluster including a set of nodes, establish, usi...