US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 22 for "Multipathing code execution based on failure severity background" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,042, issued on July 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Multipathing code execution based on failure severity background" was invented by Michael Terrence Cohoon (Fishkill, N.Y.) and Andrew C. M. Hicks (Highland, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multipathing code execution based on failure severity includes: detecting a corresponding error in each path of a plurality of paths of a portion of multipathing code of an application; identifying, from the plurality of paths, a path having a lowest error severity; and resuming execution of the application using the identified path."

The patent was ...