US Patent Issued to Google on Nov. 3 for "Coordinated maintenance for virtual machine (VM) clusters/pods" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,272, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Coordinated maintenance for virtual machine (VM) clusters/pods" was invented by Isaac Hier (Seattle), Pingpan Cheng (Seattle), Dmitry Eric Shiraev (Seattle), Pavel A Dournov (Bellevue, Wash.) and Diwakar Gupta (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a cloud computing system, groups of virtual machines include within one or more pods interacting with one another. A set of hosts is dedicated to operation of the virtual machines in each pod, and such dedication persists during routine maintenance operations when one or more virtual machines is uninstalled. The...