US Patent Issued to Dell Products on April 8 for "Availability zone fault injector for cloud computing environments" (Massachusetts, Florida, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,281, issued on April 8, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Availability zone fault injector for cloud computing environments" was invented by Michael Marrotte (Windermere, Fla.), John P Marchese Jr. (East Hampton, Conn.) and Jason Goldschmidt (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology described herein is directed towards fault injection to cloud provider resources, through a system that facilitates selection of specific resources in availability zone(s)/region(s). Example resources include VMs (virtual machines), VM clusters, tagged resource grouping and/or managed services. Based on (e.g., user)...