US Patent Issued to Red Hat on March 25 for "Dynamic geo-based computing host identification for automatic provisioning" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,917, issued on March 25, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Dynamic geo-based computing host identification for automatic provisioning" was invented by Adam Miller (Austin, Texas) and Pierre-Yves Chibon (Puteaux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system receives a first geographic area indication that corresponds to a first geographic area of a plurality of different geographic areas, and provisioning information indicative of a first set of tasks to be performed on each computing host in the first geographic area. The computing system dynamically generates, based on the first geographic area indication, ...