ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,901, issued on March 4, was assigned to harpoon Corp. (Menifee, Calif.).

"Visual cluster deployment and operation system and method" was invented by Dominic Holt (Menifee, Calif.), Manuel Gauto (Annandale, Va.) and Mathew Jackson (Highlands Ranch, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a request to set up a computing cluster comprising at least one node, the request comprising a selection of a node graphical user interface element that represents at least one virtual machine associated with at least one of at least one cloud service provider and at least one on-premise computing device, dynamically generatin...