US Patent Issued to VMware on March 25 for "Automatic drift detection of configurations of a software-defined data center that are managed according to a desired state" (Bulgarian, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,229, issued on March 25, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Automatic drift detection of configurations of a software-defined data center that are managed according to a desired state" was invented by Kalyan Devarakonda (Bangalore, India), Ivaylo Radoslavov Radev (Sofia, Bulgaria), Georgi Lyubomirov Dimitrov (Plovdiv, Bulgaria), Narasimha Gopal Gorthi (Bangalore, India) and Lipsa Nayak (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Drift is automatically detected in configuration of services running in a management appliance of a software-defined data center. A method of automatically detecting drift includes: in res...