ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,494, issued on March 11, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"High availability computing clusters" was invented by Pradeep Kumar Achi Vasudevan (Bangalore, India), Sonu Sudhakaran (Bangalore, India), Santosh Nagaraj (Bangalore, India) and Hardik Dhirendra Parekh (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example implementation consistent with the features disclosed herein, high availability of a stateful application is achieved by orchestrating multiple computing clusters. A stateful application is deployed at a first application operator and a second application operator of a firs...