US Patent Issued to Dell Products on June 30 for "Intelligent snapshot process for virtual machines with heterogeneous disks" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,071, issued on June 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Intelligent snapshot process for virtual machines with heterogeneous disks" was invented by Krishnendu Bagchi (Pune, India), Vipin Kaushal (Bangalore, India), Sudha Hebsur (Bangalore, India), Shelesh Chopra (Bangalore, India), Amarendra Behera (Bangalore, India) and Pallavi Prakash (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-guest agent receives a command to conduct a backup of a virtual machine (VM) having a copy service. A discovery is initiated of disk types attached to the VM. Based on the discovery, at least first and second disks are ident...