ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,445, issued on April 1, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Detection and mitigation of malfunctioning components in a cluster computing environment" was invented by Alexander Shteingart (Nahariya, Israel), Shoham Levy (Ra'anana, Israel) and Alexander Zvansky (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for detection and mitigation of malfunctioning components in a cluster computing environment. One method comprises obtaining, by a virtual infrastructure monitor, from a cluster monitor, an indication of a malfunctioning component in a cluster computing environment; selecting a virtual infra...