ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,921, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to DRUVA INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"System and method for restoring data of a virtual machine with patching of malicious files" was invented by Uday Sanjay Swami (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a system and method for restoring data of a virtual machine. The system includes a memory for storing one or more processor-executable routines, and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory to execute the one or more processor-executable routines to access a plurality of virtual machine snapshots of the virtual machine from a storage. The snapshots include blo...