ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,532, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Virtuozzo International GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Restoration of a state of a group of processes" was invented by Pavel Tikhomirov (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), Serg Bell (Costa del Sol, Singapore) and Stanislav Protasov (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods for restoring a state of a set of processes, for example, during live migration or restoration from checkpoint of processes or of virtual environments. Systems and methods can restore information and parameters related to the structure of the process tree and relationships between the processes. Processes can be ...