ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,198, issued on May 6, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Co-execution of an application among a plurality of compute nodes through application-level virtualization" was invented by Aidan Cully (St. Augustine, Fla.), Vance Miller (Raleigh, N.C.), Dusan Veljko (Temerin, Serbia) and Mazhar Memon (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for executing an application over a plurality of nodes in each of which an application monitor and a runtime are executing includes executing a first portion of the application by first threads of the runtime of the first node and a second portion of the application by second t...