US Patent Issued to Nutanix on March 31 for "Method and system for implementing writable snapshots in a virtualized storage environment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,370, issued on March 31, was assigned to Nutanix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method and system for implementing writable snapshots in a virtualized storage environment" was invented by Mohit Aron (Saratoga, Calif.) and Brian Byrne (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an improved approach for implementing and maintaining writable snapshots. An efficient approach is provided for implementing snapshots that can be used to immediately create snapshots without incurring any detectable delays in providing access to the new snapshots. Also described are improved metadata structures that can be used to implement and m...