US Patent Issued to VMware on Sept. 29 for "Cluster encryption during deployment" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,209, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Cluster encryption during deployment" was invented by Niharika Narasimha Murthy (Bangalore, India), Akash Kodenkiri (Bangalore, India), Ammar Rizvi (Bangalore, India) and Sandeep Sinha (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method for encrypting clusters during deployment may include retrieving, from a blueprint, resource information required to deploy a cluster including a host computing system and a virtual cluster manager node to manage the host computing system. The resource information may include host information and disk information...