ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,541, issued on April 7, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Cloning a cloud-agnostic deployment" was invented by Kaloyan Bojilski (Sofia, Bulgaria), Stoyan Staykov Genchev (Sofia, Bulgaria) and Iliya Uzunov (Sofia, Bulgaria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cloning a cloud-agnostic deployment is described herein. One example method includes receiving modifications to an existing deployment created using a blueprint in a virtualized environment, and performing a deployment clone operation responsive to receiving a request to clone the deployment. The deployment clone operation can include creating an image associated with a ...