ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,802, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Egnyte Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for efficiently identifying failed computing nodes" was invented by Sean Elliott Roberts (Mountain View, Calif.), Ran Simha Biron (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Shishir Sharma (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for identifying failed computing nodes are disclosed. An example system includes a plurality of computing nodes, where each computing node of the plurality of computing nodes includes, or has access to, at least one hardware processor. An example method includes generating a unique identifier partic...