ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,942, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Scaling cluster without re-imaging nodes" was invented by Edward Guohua Ding (Shanghai), Jim Lewei Ji (Shanghai) and Tianming Zhang (Brighton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system may include at least one processor and a memory. The information handling system may be configured to: add a node to a cluster of information handling systems; while the node is a member of the cluster, cause a plurality of components of the node to be changed according to a first set of changes; for each change in the first set of changes, store a ...