ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,618, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Rerouting of client server connections" was invented by Vinay Sawal (Fremont, Calif.), Alan White (Glasgow, Great Britain) and Mauro Monteiro Silva (Cork, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for gracefully rerouting connections between client devices and server devices are disclosed. The method may include suspending a logical connection between a client device and a service provided by a server device set and placing the logical connection in a predetermined state. While the logical connection is in the predetermined state, modifyin...