US Patent Issued to VMware on April 15 for "Desired state configuration for virtual machines" (American, Bulgarian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,433, issued on April 15, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Desired state configuration for virtual machines" was invented by Daniel Beveridge (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ed Shmookler (Palo Alto, Calif.), Heath Reynolds (Palo Alto, Calif.), Mike O'Reilly (Palo Alto, Calif.), Pascal Laroche (Palo Alto, Calif.), Sean Lambert (Palo Alto, Calif.), Pranay Pareek (Palo Alto, Calif.), Amarnath Raghunathan (Palo Alto, Calif.), Steve Tilkens (Palo Alto, Calif.), Mark Peek (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Yuriy Georgiev (Sofia, Bulgaria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for setting virtual machines ("VMs") to desired configuratio...