ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,034, issued on June 30, was assigned to Advanced Cluster Systems Inc. (Newport Beach, Calif.).
"Cluster computing" was invented by Zvi Tannenbaum (Newport Coast, Calif.) and Dean E. Dauger (Huntington Beach, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a computer cluster system comprises a plurality of nodes and a software package comprising a user interface and a kernel for interpreting program code instructions. In certain embodiments, a cluster node module is configured to communicate with the kernel and other cluster node modules. The cluster node module can accept instructions from the user interface and can interp...