ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,815, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Schema-based classification of data on a system" was invented by Mayur Bhosle (San Jose, Calif.), Mukund Gunti (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Olivier Alain Cremel (Los Altos, Calif.), Jeffrey Hu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Siddharth Gandhi (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtualized computing system includes a plurality of hosts, each of which is configured with a virtualization software for supporting execution of virtual machines therein. A method of managing a configuration of a system service in the virtualized computing system includes upon receiving ...