ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,104, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Preserving and modifying virtual machine settings in replication-based virtual machine migration" was invented by Or Igelka (Tel Mond, Israel) and Ayelet Wald (Petach Tikva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure are directed to modifying and preserving virtual machine settings at a target computing environment as virtual machine settings change for a migrating virtual machine. The migration system balances matching the most up-to-date settings of the virtual machine in its source environment, with making changes as necessary to the ...