ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,151, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Vijay Madisetti (Alpharetta, Ga.).

"Fault tolerant multi-agent generative AI applications" was invented by Vijay Madisetti (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Arshdeep Bahga (Chandigarh, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for agent failure detection including listening for an agent heartbeat signal from an agent, updating a most recent heartbeat timestamp for the agent upon receiving the agent heartbeat signal from the agent or, upon not receiving the agent heartbeat signal, probing the agent for a response. Upon receiving the response from the agent, the suspect agent designation is removed from ...