ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,247, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Hitachi Vantara Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Multi-node system and power supply control method" was invented by Tsubasa Matsushita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the event of a partial outage, a multi-node system is enabled to start processing easily and appropriately. The multi-node system includes multiple nodes each including at least one controller, the controller including a processor, a power supply control microcomputer, a memory, and a nonvolatile memory. The processor detects whether or not any one of the nodes is inactive due to a power outage. The processor determines whether o...