US Patent Issued on Sept. 29 for "VM disk conversion (resistible to power off)" (Serbian, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,612, issued on Sept. 29.

"VM disk conversion (resistible to power off)" was invented by Denis Lunev (Belgrade, Serbia) and Kirill Tkhai (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for conversion of a virtual disk image are described. The described techniques enable a virtual disk image to be converted from a first version to a second version, such as to enable a virtual machine to be used by different host systems. Accordingly, the described techniques can convert a virtual disk image by creating a new header and new metadata for the virtual disk image in a new format. The new header includes pointers to the new metadata and t...