ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,624, issued on March 3, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Communication between control planes in a virtualized computing system having an autonomous cluster" was invented by Sandeep Sinha (Bangalore, India), Akash Kodenkiri (Bangalore, India), Varun Rajasekar (Chennai, India), Prachi Singhal (Bangalore, India), Ivailo Vladimirov Loboshki (Sofia, Bulgaria), Dimitar Dimitrov (Sofia, Bulgaria) and Hakan Sunay Halil (Sofia, Bulgaria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of establishing trust between a cross-cluster control plane (xCCP) and a cluster control plane (CCP) of an autonomous cluster of hosts in a vir...