US Patent Issued to Sophos on June 3 for "Software rollback of cluster of network devices" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,771, issued on June 3, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).

"Software rollback of cluster of network devices" was invented by Nikhil Bhandari (Bangalore, India), Venkata Suresh Reddy Obulareddy (Bangalore, India) and Amit Katyal (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a cluster of network devices using a consensus protocol for cluster synchronization, a full software rollback is performed by backing up a cluster state on a primary instance for the cluster, and then restarting all devices at the same time from a prior partition. The primary instance can then start a cluster management service and other dev...