ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,361, issued on March 4, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Systems and method for rectifying server failure of distributed file systems utilizing predictive logical markers" was invented by Magaranth Jayasingh (Tamilnadu, India), Vimal Chandroliya (Gujarat, India) and Preethi Jagadeesan (Tamilnadu, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure presents a system for rectifying server failures in distributed file systems using predictive logical markers. The system begins by receiving user details, a file name, and a block address via a distributed file system (DFS) client. If previous read information exi...