ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,619, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Nutanix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Memory reclamation based on exclusive memory usage by snapshot groups" was invented by Hitesh Vinod Bhagchandani (Bengaluru, India), John Chau (San Jose, Calif.), Moazzam Hussain (San Jose, Calif.), Prakhar Sinha (Bengaluru, India), Shantanu Potdar (San Jose, Calif.), Shubh Pragnesh Shah (Bengaluru, India) and Vinayak Hindurao Khot (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus may include one or more processors and a non-transitory, computer-readable medium including instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one ...