ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,538, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Computing device and method for use in the computing device" was invented by Roman Yakovenko (Munich), Michael Hirsch (Munich) and Dan Bar Dov (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device is configured to operate as a server in a cluster system. The computing device includes a controller, a local memory and a communications interface. The communications interface is configured to connect to a second computing device and to connect to a shared memory configured to store data. The controller is configured to receive a command from a cli...