US Patent Issued to VMware on March 25 for "External communication with packaged virtual machine applications without networking" (California, Arizona, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,246, issued on March 25, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"External communication with packaged virtual machine applications without networking" was invented by Joshua Schnee (Austin, Texas), Douglas Jr. Baer (Mesa, Ariz.), Joseph Dieckhans (Fremont, Calif.) and Pablo Roesch (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more embodiments provide techniques that permit virtual computing instances in isolated environments to communicate information outside the isolated environments without requiring networking. In one embodiment, an encoder which runs in a virtual machine (VM) within an isolated environment, such ...