ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,829, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Managing servers using power transmission circuits" was invented by Dmitry Vladimirovich Krivenok (Dublin), Amitai Alkalay (Kadima, Israel) and Aric Hadav (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique is directed to managing a server cluster that includes multiple servers. The technique involves receiving, from a server in the server cluster, set of heartbeat signals through a power transmission circuit constructed and arranged to deliver power to the server cluster. The technique further involves detecting an interruption in receiving the set...