ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,557, issued on March 24, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Synchronization of container environments to maintain availability for a predetermined zone" was invented by Brian Jacobson (Los Angeles), Donna Phillips (Newark, Del.), Elvis Nyamwange (Addison, Texas), Madhukiran Bangalore Ramachandra (San Ramon, Calif.) and Vismay Mandloi (Pennington, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for a proactive monitoring-container switching system is provided. The system may include a server cluster. The system may proactively monitor the servers within the cluster to determine if one or more servers ...