ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,759, issued on April 29, was assigned to Guardant Health Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Single namespace for high performance computing system" was invented by William Patrick Baird (Orinda, Calif.), Mikhail Zhagrov (San Francisco), Alexander David Younts (West Lafayette, Ind.), Varsha Kohirkar (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Kumud Kalia (Redwood, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing architecture controls data processing arbitration in a high performance computing system that includes one or more premises. Individual premises can include one or more server computers executing an instance of a local file system and including one...