ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,692, issued on May 12, was assigned to Rakuten Symphony Inc. (Tokyo).
"Disk image dump for configuring bare metal servers" was invented by Sree Nandan Atur (Newark, Calif.) and Ravi Kumar Alluboyina (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for capturing a disk image of a bare metal server, and then using the disk image to provision other bare metal servers. A method includes capturing a disk image of a first bare metal server and writing the disk image to a repository manager. The method includes launching a continuous delivery mode on a second bare metal server where the disk image is fetched from reposit...