ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,942, issued on July 28, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Intelligent dynamic protection for deleted virtual machines" was invented by Prakash Appayya Acharya (Bangalore, India) and Sharath Talkad Srinivasan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system detects a switch off event sent by a virtual machine management server, and identifies a virtual machine that is tagged by the switch off event and protected by a data protection server, and applies a deletion lock to the virtual machine. The system detects a deletion event sent by the virtual machine management server, and identifies a virtual machine...