US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 19 for "Cross-platform virtual machine migration" (Washington, Georgia, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,279, issued on May 19, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Cross-platform virtual machine migration" was invented by Rupesh Bhagaban Patro (Redmond, Wash.), Shivjit Satish Patil (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Aishwarya Srinivasa Raghavan (Sammamish, Wash.) and Kenyon James Hensler (Acworth, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed computing system including a migration domain having migration agents and virtual machines running on hypervisors, where the hypervisors span multiple independent distributed computing platforms. The migration domain is configured to (1) receive a request to migrate a virtual ...