US Patent Issued to VMware on Aug. 5 for "Execution engine integration framework for byzantine fault tolerant (BFT) state machine replication (SMR) systems" (Bulgarian, Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,944, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Execution engine integration framework for byzantine fault tolerant (BFT) state machine replication (SMR) systems" was invented by Teodor Parvanov (Sofia, Bulgaria), Celine Jose Nalkara (Bangalore, India), Tarunkumar Banda (Bangalore, India), Tsvetomir Dimirov Dimitrov (Sofia, Bulgaria) and Andrew Joseph Stone (Malden, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention, in various embodiments, provides a novel execution engine integration framework for a BFT SMR system. With this framework, execution engines for services can be integrated into the BFT SMR ...