ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,754, issued on June 24, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Systematic topology spread of pods to data processing systems" was invented by Sudhir Vittal Shetty (Cedar Park, Texas) and Rishi Mukherjee (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing operation of a deployment comprising data processing systems are disclosed. The operation of the deployment may be managed by reducing a likelihood of failure of services to a data processing system. The likelihood of the failure of the services may be reduced by assigning a pod to a data processing system based on identifying fault zones...