VMware, Inc. Patent Application Trends in 2025

VMware, Inc. patent applications in 2025

Top 10 Technology Areas

• G06F9/45558 ({Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects})
  • Count: 17 patents
  • Example: 20250036438. SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING OPERATIONS FOR VIRTUAL COMPUTING INSTANCES WITH PHYSICAL PASSTHRU DEVICES (VMWARE, INC.)
• G06F2009/4557 ({Distribution of virtual machine instances; Migration and load balancing})
  • Count: 8 patents
  • Example: 20250036438. SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING OPERATIONS FOR VIRTUAL COMPUTING INSTANCES WITH PHYSICAL PASSTHRU DEVICES (VMWARE, INC.)
• G06F2009/45595 ({Network integration; Enabling network access in virtual machine instances})
  • Count: 7 patents
  • Example: 20250036443. SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING FLEXIBLE CLOUD NAMESPACES IN A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT (VMware, Inc.)
• G06F2009/45583 ({Memory management, e.g. access or allocation})
  • Count: 4 patents
  • Example: 20250036438. SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING OPERATIONS FOR VIRTUAL COMPUTING INSTANCES WITH PHYSICAL PASSTHRU DEVICES (VMWARE, INC.)
• H04L47/125 (by balancing the load, e.g. traffic engineering)
  • Count: 2 patents
  • Example: 20250071062. RECEIVE SIDE SCALING (RSS) USING PROGRAMMABLE PHYSICAL NETWORK INTERFACE CONTROLLER (PNIC) (VMware, Inc.)
• G06F2009/45591 ({Monitoring or debugging support})
  • Count: 2 patents
  • Example: 20250077252. MECHANISM FOR MANAGING BARE-METAL CONTAINERIZED APPLICATIONS FROM AN EMBEDDED HYPERVISOR (VMware, Inc.)
• G06F3/0673 ({Single storage device})
  • Count: 2 patents
  • Example: 20250094068. PARALLELIZED RECOVERY OF LOGICAL BLOCK ADDRESS (LBA) TABLES (VMware, Inc.)
• G06F2221/033 (Indexing scheme relating to)
  • Count: 2 patents
  • Example: 20250028816. PROTECTION FOR A COMPUTER SYSTEM THAT EXECUTES CONTAINERS (VMware, Inc.)
• G06F8/65 (Updates (security arrangements therefor)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250036389. MULTI-SOURCE DATA CENTER OBJECT MIRRORING IN A MULTI-CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT (VMWARE, INC.)
• G06F2009/45562 ({Creating, deleting, cloning virtual machine instances})
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250036438. SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING OPERATIONS FOR VIRTUAL COMPUTING INSTANCES WITH PHYSICAL PASSTHRU DEVICES (VMWARE, INC.)

Emerging Technology Areas

• H03H2021/0036 (IMPEDANCE NETWORKS, e.g. RESONANT CIRCUITS; RESONATORS (measuring, testing)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250016230. DISTRIBUTED COMPRESSIVE SENSING OF MULTI-DOMAIN SPARSE SIGNALS IN DISTRIBUTED EDGE SYSTEMS (VMware, Inc.)
• G16Y10/75 (INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE INTERNET OF THINGS [IoT])
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250016230. DISTRIBUTED COMPRESSIVE SENSING OF MULTI-DOMAIN SPARSE SIGNALS IN DISTRIBUTED EDGE SYSTEMS (VMware, Inc.)
• H04L67/12 (specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250016230. DISTRIBUTED COMPRESSIVE SENSING OF MULTI-DOMAIN SPARSE SIGNALS IN DISTRIBUTED EDGE SYSTEMS (VMware, Inc.)
• G06T2207/30168 (Subject of image; Context of image processing)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250014158. EMPIRICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF USER EXPERIENCE WITH ARBITRARY WORKLOADS IN VDI ENVIRONMENTS (VMware, Inc.)
• G06T2207/20084 (Special algorithmic details)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250014158. EMPIRICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF USER EXPERIENCE WITH ARBITRARY WORKLOADS IN VDI ENVIRONMENTS (VMware, Inc.)
• G06T2207/20048 (Special algorithmic details)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250014158. EMPIRICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF USER EXPERIENCE WITH ARBITRARY WORKLOADS IN VDI ENVIRONMENTS (VMware, Inc.)
• G06T7/0002 ({Inspection of images, e.g. flaw detection})
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250014158. EMPIRICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF USER EXPERIENCE WITH ARBITRARY WORKLOADS IN VDI ENVIRONMENTS (VMware, Inc.)
• G06F16/285 ({Clustering or classification})
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250013653. FEDERATED QUERY PROCESSING FOR DISTRIBUTED DATABASES (VMware, Inc.)
• G06F16/24532 ({of parallel queries})
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250013653. FEDERATED QUERY PROCESSING FOR DISTRIBUTED DATABASES (VMware, Inc.)
• G06F16/2282 ({Tablespace storage structures; Management thereof})
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250013653. FEDERATED QUERY PROCESSING FOR DISTRIBUTED DATABASES (VMware, Inc.)

Top Inventors

• Qi WU (3 patents)
• Sunil Kumar Kotian of San Jose CA (US) (3 patents)
• Adithya Uligere Narasimhamurthy of Longmont CO (US) (3 patents)
• Eric KNAUFT of San Francisco CA (US) (3 patents)
• VIPUL PATEL (2 patents)
• Donghai HAN (2 patents)
• Bo LIN (2 patents)
• Xi ZENG (2 patents)
• Hari SIVARAMAN of Livermore CA (US) (2 patents)
• PALLA GOLLA DWARAKESH (2 patents)

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