US Patent Issued to VMware on April 15 for "Hypervisor assisted security of dangling volumes for containers" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,434, issued on April 15, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Hypervisor assisted security of dangling volumes for containers" was invented by Zubraj Singha (Bangalore, India), Tanay Ganguly (Bangalore, India), Goresh Musalay (Bangalore, India) and Sanoj Ku (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a method for securing, by a hypervisor of a host, a first persistent volume used to maintain data for one or more first containers on the host. The method generally includes receiving a request to retain the first persistent volume when the one or more first containers are removed from the host, re...