ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,743, issued on July 14.

"Virtual machine managing system using snapshot" was invented by Shuai Ye (Nanjing, China), Ke Xu (Nanjing, China), Jian Luo (Nanjing, China) and Cheng Zhang (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing virtual machines are described herein. A virtualization computing platform may host a plurality of virtual machines comprising. The platform may detect that the first user device is disconnected from the first virtual machine and determine, using a machine learning model, that the first virtual machine, during a time period while the user device is disconnected, is in an idle ...