ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,007, issued on June 30, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Virtual machine migration with memory pooling" was invented by Jonathon Evans (Santa Clara, Calif.), Vikram Sethi (Austin, Texas), Durgesh Srivastava (Cupertino, Calif.) and James Stephen Fields Jr. (Santa Fe, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for facilitating the migration of one or more virtual machines from a source computing system to a target computing system comprise an architecture with a memory pool. The memory pool is accessible by both the source computing system and the target computing system. Using this architecture, a firs...