ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,147, issued on April 21, was assigned to CAPITAL ONE SERVICES LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for achieving near zero impact during node failure in a cluster system" was invented by Rohit Joshi (Glen Allen, Va.), Ashish Gupta (Richmond, Va.) and Glen Hao Cheng (Oakton, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for node management performed by a client driver of a client device comprising receiving cluster topology data from the cluster system; transmitting, a data request to each of a plurality of nodes in a cluster system; receiving a reply from each of the nodes that are responsive; assigning, by...