ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,127, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Bare-metal snapshots" was invented by Soham Jayesh Desai (Jacksonville, Fla.), Rami Ailabouni (Melbourne, Australia), Newton Paine Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Binu Ramakrishnan (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a host interface coupled to a host device executing a tenant operating system (OS) on bare metal and hardware accelerator(s) coupled to the host interface and a network interface. The hardware accelerator(s) receive, over the host interface, a snapshot request relating to a snapshot of tenant OS. Snap...