ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,470, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Resource distribution engine(s) for allocating and securing reclaimable resources within a cloud environment" was invented by Idan Schwartz (Tel Aviv, Israel), Tal Ohayon (Tel Aviv, Israel), Guy Yariv (Tel Aviv, Israel), Oren Gurfinkel (Rishon le Zion, Israel), Michael Goldberg (Tel Aviv, Israel), Revital Vladimirsky (Petah Tikva, Israel), Oleg Verhovsky (Ashdod, Israel), Roi Kramer (Ramat Gan, Israel), Shani Jacobson (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Shahaf Yamin (Ramat Gan, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present technology generally rela...