US Patent Issued on July 28 for "Optimized creation of identity information for provisioned virtual machines" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,882, issued on July 28.

"Optimized creation of identity information for provisioned virtual machines" was invented by Simon Piers Graham (Bolton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for initializing a virtual machine (VM) image is provided. The method includes steps of retrieving identity data from a metadata service implemented by a cloud environment; obtaining, from the cloud environment, a virtual identity disk assigned to a VM; and writing the identity data to the virtual identity disk assigned to the VM. The method may further comprise encrypting the identity data with a data encryption key (DEK) or a public...