ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,048, issued on March 18, was assigned to AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY INC. (New York).

"Self-healing data clusters" was invented by Karina I. Alvarez Silverstein (Plantation, Fla.), Mahasweta Dhawan (Livingston, N.J.), Alan Wilson D'Souza (New Providence, N.J.), Sayantan Dutta (Toronto), Anmol Handa (Faridabad, India), Shipali Jangra (Jersey City, N.J.), Hen Israel Kamil (Miami Beach, Fla.), Rajendra Prasad Modadugu (Weston, Fla.), Sumit Prajapati (Weston, Fla.) and Bhupesh Sharma (Gurgaon, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are various embodiments for self-healing data clusters. One or more candidate...