ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,606, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Data access by virtual processors in a distributed system" was invented by Keith Reynolds (Seattle) and Michael Berman (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a distributed system includes a plurality of computer nodes comprising respective physical input/output (I/O) interfaces to a network-attached storage system. A virtual I/O interface is between a distributed virtual management program and a guest operating system (OS) of a virtual machine (VM). A plurality of virtual processors access the network-attach...