US Patent Issued to VMware on Nov. 3 for "Lifecycle management of in-vehicle hosted machines" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,229, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Lifecycle management of in-vehicle hosted machines" was invented by Daniel J. Beveridge (Valrico, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a novel method for efficiently updating software of virtual machines (VMs) executing on devices in a vehicle such that updates to the software do not interrupt operations performed by the VMs. While the vehicle operates, the method collects configuration state information of a first VM executing on a device and performing a set of operations. The method uses the configuration state information to instantiate...