US Patent Issued to VMware on Sept. 2 for "Password management of virtual machines for migration support" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,051, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Password management of virtual machines for migration support" was invented by Dinesh Sharma (Bangalore, India), Amiya Sahu (Bangalore, India), Himanshu Garg (Bangalore, India) and Jeffrey W. Sheldon (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the disclosure are directed to password management of virtual machines in a virtual machine environment. A password can be obtained that corresponds to a virtual machine. The password can be associated with a password identifier that is generated independent of a storage location of the files associated w...