ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,601, issued on March 3, was assigned to Nutanix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method for automatic bootstrapping environment using operating system and address of imaging location for remote node configuration" was invented by Monica Adusumilli (Rajahmundry, India), Toms Varghese (Thiruvalla, India), Kumar Sidhartha (Bangalore, India) and Amritesh Patidar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for imaging a self-bootstrapping computing node includes booting, from a boot device, the computing node into a bootstrapping environment using a bootstrap operating system, where the bootstrap operating system is conf...