US Patent Issued to NETAPP on June 23 for "Hybrid cloud based protection for applications and virtual machines" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,011, issued on June 23, was assigned to NETAPP INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Hybrid cloud based protection for applications and virtual machines" was invented by Vasantha Sadananda Prabhu (Bangalore, India), Nikhil Bhavadas Kaplingat (Bangalore, India), Vineeth Karinta (Apex, N.C.), Ritu Parathody (Shoranur, India), Boggala Prabhakar (Chittoor, India), Madhusudhan Vondaraguppe Nanjundaiah (Channapatna, India), Mohankumar Ganesan (Bangalore, India), Suryanarayana Kolluri (Bangalore, India), Balamurali Palaiah (Gilroy, Calif.) and Sachin Anil Gandhi (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for applications and/or...