US Patent Issued to VMware on Feb. 18 for "Reconfiguration framework for byzantine fault tolerant (BFT) state machine replication (SMR) systems" (Israeli, Bulgarian, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,445, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Reconfiguration framework for byzantine fault tolerant (BFT) state machine replication (SMR) systems" was invented by Yehonatan Buchnik (Rosh Ha'ayin, Israel), Ittai Abraham (Tel Aviv, Israel), Toly Kournik (Herzliya, Israel), Nikhil Kumar (Bangalore, India) and Nikolay Kolev Georgiev (Sofia, Bulgaria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to a novel reconfiguration framework for a BFT SMR system. With this framework, the configuration of both the system itself and the clients of the system can be modified in a live manner (i.e., witho...