ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,288, issued on April 21, was assigned to Applied Intuition Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Fault state recovery using predefined configurations" was invented by John Hayes (Mountain View, Calif.), Volkmar Uhlig (Cupertino, Calif.), Richard A. Swetz (Los Altos, Calif.) and Daniel P. Potts (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fault state recovery using predefined configurations, including: determining that a first node of a plurality of nodes has failed; identifying, based on the first node failing, a failure state from a plurality of predefined failure states each corresponding to a different combination of one or more failed nodes, whe...