US Patent Issued to Red Hat on June 10 for "Consensus driven mesh organization" (Irish, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,231, issued on June 10, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Consensus driven mesh organization" was invented by Leigh Griffin (Waterford, Ireland) and Pierre-Yves Chibon (Saint-Pol-de-Leon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing logic may determine that a service is absent among a plurality of nodes within a zone of a mesh network. Processing logic may nominate one of the plurality of nodes to run the service. Processing logic may request a consensus among the plurality of nodes within the zone of the mesh network to confirm the nomination. Processing logic may, in response to receiving confirmation of the nomina...