ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,051, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Failure tolerant and explainable state machine driven hypergraph execution" was invented by Sumeet Priyadarshee Dash (Lake Forest, Calif.), Jose Aguilar Saborit (Bellevue, Wash.), Krishnan Srinivasan (Sammamish, Wash.), Mohammad Shafiei Khadem (Seattle), Kevin Bocksrocker (Kirkland, Wash.), Brandon Barry Haynes (Seattle) and Raghunath Ramakrishnan (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hypergraph workload manager in a server is configured for failure tolerant and explainable state machine driven hypergraph execution. The hypergraph ...