ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,240, issued on April 14, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Remote edge virtualization management" was invented by Tiejun Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of remote edge virtualization management are described. An edge hypervisor shadow application is executed. The edge hypervisor shadow application acts as an Input/Output for an edge hypervisor that is IP inaccessible to a virtualization service. The edge hypervisor shadow application receives a hypertext transport protocol (HTTP) communication from the virtualization service. A Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT) message is generated to inclu...