ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,096, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Management of distributed database nodes within a customer network" was invented by Wenfeng Li (Shanghai), Stephane Meng (Shanghai) and Chen Liang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed database management system includes a centralized management module for managing resources within a customer network. The management module software, e.g., vCenter, or a health state plugin of the management module, accesses health state information from distributed database nodes within the customer network. The health state information may be or may includ...