ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,781, issued on April 22, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Cluster bootstrapping for distributed computing systems" was invented by Sameer Suhas Deokule (Fremont, Calif.), Aneesh Malkhed (Bangalore, India), Sounak Chakraborty (Bangalore, India), Devarajulu Kavali (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Devaraj Das (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed computing system is described that leverages a nearline storage layer to minimize the downtime required for bootstrapping a new computing cluster in the distributed computing system. The system executes a computing cluster comprising a set of...