ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,497, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"High availability systems having thinly-provisioned secondary servers" was invented by Eric P. Fitzpatrick (Durham, N.C.), Isaac R. Nassi (Los Gatos, Calif.), David P. Reed (Los Gatos, Colo.) and Gary Smerdon (Monterey, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with example implementations, a process includes associating a secondary computer system with a primary computer system. The secondary computer system includes a first virtual machine, which is hosted by a secondary set of physical computer nodes. The primary computer ...