ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,231, issued on June 24, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Method for criteria-based desired state management" was invented by Kalyan Devarakonda (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of managing a desired state of a software-defined data center (SDDC) includes the steps of: receiving an original desired state document that includes configurations and associated criteria for applying the configurations; evaluating a first criteria to determine that a first configuration associated with the first criteria is applicable to components of the SDDC; evaluating a second criteria to determine that a second ...