US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on March 18 for "Storage device-assisted live virtual machine migration" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,335, issued on March 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Storage device-assisted live virtual machine migration" was invented by Ramdas P. Kachare (Pleasanton, Calif.), Oscar P. Pinto (San Jose, Calif.) and Yang seok Ki (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device is disclosed. The storage device may include at least one controller for a virtual machine (VM) that is on a source host. Storage in the storage device may store data for the VM. A second storage may store a storage state for the VM. A storage device controller may process at least one read request received from the contro...