ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,688, issued on April 7, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Managed directories for virtual machines" was invented by Ronald Karr (Palo Alto, Calif.) and David A. Grunwald (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative data storage system is configured to provide managed directories for virtual machines. For example, an example system is configured to generate a managed directory within a file system, the managed directory configured to provide directory-level storage management functionality to contents of the managed directory as a group, and store configuration data and image data of a virtual ...