ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,293, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Self-healing network of infrastructure processing units" was invented by Reshma Lal (Portland, Ore.), Pallavi Dhumal (Folsom, Calif.), Shubha Bommalingaiahnapallya (East Brunswick, N.J.) and Asmae Mhassni (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Self-healing networks of Infrastructure Processing Units (IPUs) and associated methods and apparatus. The self-healing IPUs manage other processing units (XPU) clusters by seamlessly migrating the IPU responsibilities to another IPU in the networked environment (e.g., data center) that may be available when an...