US Patent Issued to NUTANIX on Oct. 14 for "Techniques for switching device implementations for virtual devices" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,426, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NUTANIX INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Techniques for switching device implementations for virtual devices" was invented by Felipe Franciosi (Cambridge, Great Britain) and John Levon (Manchester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments set forth techniques for managing devices in a virtual environment. The techniques include mapping a virtual device of a virtual computing instance to a first device implementation. The techniques further include, in response to a trigger condition, remapping the virtual device to a second device implementation. The remapping is transparent to...