ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,943, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Nutanix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method for offloading preprocessing of machine learning data to remote storage" was invented by Debojyoti Dutta (San Jose, Calif.), Johnu George (Bangalore, India), Manosiz Bhattacharyya (San Jose, Calif.) and Roger Liao (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative embodiment disclosed herein is an apparatus including a processor having programmed instructions to place a first compute resource in a storage node of an object storage platform and to place a second compute resource in a compute node in a client coupled to the object st...