ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,083, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"System and method for deploying a software-defined data center based on desired state specification from virtualization software" was invented by Uday Kiran Erukulla (Milpitas, Calif.), Prashanth Suresh (Mountain View, Calif.), Jeffrey Gabriel Hu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Abhay Manandhar (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method for deploying software-defined data centers (SDDCs) in target computing environments uses a software-defined data center (SDDC) bootstrap service running in a virtualization software of a host computer in a ta...