ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,054, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Solver for cluster management system" was invented by Albert Yen Shau (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Christopher Gianelloni (Santa Clara, Calif.), Derek Lewis Wood (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jonathan Michael Gray (Hermosa Beach, Calif.), Nitin Motgi (Santa Clara, Calif.), Poorna Chandra Gowda Bannikkuppe Ramachandra (San Mateo, Calif.) and Rohit Sarma Nistala (Torrance, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing device receives a first cluster management operation request, wherein the first cluster management operation request is for a deployment operation of a firs...