ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,004, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dynamic multi-lane degrade capability to facilitate uninterrupted service" was invented by Rajat Rao (Bangalore, India), Patrick James Meaney (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Ashutosh Mishra (Lagrangeville, N.Y.), Jason Andrew Thompson (Rochester, Minn.) and Nandini Gaadam Nagaraj (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system, computer readable storage medium, and computer-implemented method for dynamically degrading a link between multiple processing devices to facilitate uninterrupted service between the multiple processing device...