ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,050, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Force provisioning virtual objects in degraded stretched clusters" was invented by Duncan Epping (Helmond, Netherlands), Frank Denneman (Purmerend, Netherlands) and Cormac Hogan (Cork, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is related to methods, systems, and machine-readable media for force provisioning virtual objects in degraded stretched clusters. A request to provision a virtual object by a stretched cluster according to a storage policy specified as part of the request can be received by a software defined data center (SDDC). The c...