ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,549, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Automated system for restarting large scale cluster supercomputers" was invented by Elvis Nyamwange (Little Elm, Texas), Sailesh Vezzu (Hillsborough, N.J.), Amer Ali (Jersey City, N.J.), Rahul Shashidhar Phadnis (Charlotte, N.C.), Rahul Yaksh (Austin, Texas), Hari Vuppala (Concord, N.C.), Pratap Dande (Saint Johns, Fla.), Brian Neal Jacobson (Los Angeles) and Erik Dahl (Newark, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein an automated system for restarting large scale cluster supercomputers. Th...