ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,975, issued on July 21, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Fast restart of large memory systems" was invented by David P. Reed (Needham, Mass.) and Isaac R. Nassi (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Utilizing a storage replica data structure includes receiving, at a hyper-kernel running on a computing node in a plurality of interconnected computing nodes, an indication of an operation pertaining to at least one of a guest physical memory address or a stable storage address. A guest operating system is run on a virtual environment that is defined by a set of hyper-kernels running ...