ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,527, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Virtuozzo International GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"System and method for a live migration of a guest operating system from a source computing device to a target computing device" was invented by Denis Lunev (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and method for live migration of a guest OS from a source computing device to a target computing device, the method comprising: interrupting execution of the guest OS in a hypervisor on the source computing device, transferring a state of the guest OS to a hypervisor on the target computing device, creating fake I/O ...