ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,279, issued on May 20, was assigned to Nutanix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method of VM recovery on S3 compatible object storage" was invented by Anirudha Narsinha Sonar (San Jose, Calif.), Sreejith Mohanan (San Jose, Calif.), Xingchi Jin (Union City, Calif.) and Xuerong Hu (Union City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with some aspects of the present disclosure, a non-transitory computer readable medium is disclosed. In some embodiments, the non-transitory computer readable medium includes instructions when executed by a processor cause the processor to expose, to a client, an immutable object as a volume...