ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,826, issued on April 7, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Audit log generation and processing for cluster file system serviceability" was invented by Vishal Tiwary (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Philip Shilane (Newtown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-node, multi-container cluster system that generates, aggregates, and manages log files from services and components to be used for audit logs used by an auditor. Logs are collected from all components of the system and aggregated using a central persistent volume for non-critical applications and additional dedicated persistent volumes for critical tasks. Audit ...