ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,482, issued on May 13, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Cascaded priority mapping" was invented by Somasundaram Arunachalam (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches for scheduling a set of tasks at compute nodes within a cluster computing environment based on a priority, are described, In an example, a cascaded priority mapping comprising cascaded priority value nodes, wherein the priority value nodes correspond to the set of tasks that are to be scheduled. Each of the priority value nodes specify a priority value attributed to respective tasks from amongst the set of task...