ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,084, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Migrating a function between virtual machines" was invented by Steven Soumpholphakdy (Chicago), David Leimbach (Mechanicsburg, Pa.), Michael Burriss (Raleigh, N.C.), Raymond Ramsden (Seattle) and Chris Zhu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technologies described herein are generally directed toward migrating a function between virtual machines. In an embodiment, a method can include identifying a cluster for scaling, deployed using a first node device of a set of node devices supporting the cluster, wherein the first node device has a first virt...