ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,233, issued on May 6, was assigned to VMWare LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Automated methods and systems that provide resource recommendations for virtual machines" was invented by Nitu Sharaff (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Yanislav Yankov (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The current document is directed to methods and systems that generate recommendations for resource specifications used in virtual-machine-hosting requests. When distributed applications are submitted to distributed-computer-system-based hosting platforms for hosting, the hosting requester generally specifies the computational resources that will need to be pr...