ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,461, issued on April 22, was assigned to VIRTUALZ COMPUTING Corp. (Minneapolis).

"System and method for selective migration of mainframe resources to a non-mainframe environment" was invented by Jeanne M. Glass (White Bear Lake, Minn.), Dustin W. Froyum (Golden Valley, Minn.), Vincent R. Re (Southport, N.C.) and Marc S. Sokol (Palm Harbor, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, from a client device, an input/output (I/O) request pursuant to a first protocol, the first protocol being a standards-based I/O protocol. The I/O request is communicated to a proxy communicatively coupled with a mainframe server, the ...