ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,735, issued on May 20, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Enhanced configuration management of data processing clusters" was invented by Joel Baxter (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems, methods, and software to enhance the management and deployment of data processing clusters in a computing environment. In one example, a management system may monitor data processing efficiency information for a cluster and determine when the efficiency meets efficiency criteria. When the efficiency criteria are met, the management system may identify a new configura...