ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,942, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Desired state management of software-defined data centers with a plurality of desired state configurations" was invented by Kalyan Devarakonda (Bangalore, India) and Praveen Tirumanyam (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of managing configurations of SDDCs of a tenant includes the steps of: retrieving a base configuration document, a first supplemental configuration document of a first SDDC, and a second supplemental configuration document of a second SDDC; issuing, to the first SDDC, a first instruction to update a running configuration stat...