ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,340, issued on March 18, was assigned to VMWare LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Providing services with guest VM mobility" was invented by Fenil Kavathia (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Anuprem Chalvadi (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yang Ping (San Jose, Calif.), Akhila Naveen (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yong Feng (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kantesh Mundaragi (Bangalore, India), Rahul Mishra (Mountain View, Calif.), Pierluigi Rolando (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jayant Jain (Cupertino, Calif.) and Raju Koganty (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide novel methods for performing services for machines operating in one or more datacenters. For inst...