ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,130, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Maintenance mode in HCI environment" was invented by Kai Chen (Shanghai), Jun Zhan (Shanghai), Stephane Meng (Shanghai), HongGang Liu (Shanghai), Yuyan Chen (Shanghai), Carl Shi (Shanghai) and Michael G. Varteresian (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system may include at least one processor and a memory. The information handling system may be configured to perform a maintenance operation involving a plurality of hosts of an information handling system cluster by: determining a score for each host based on a sum of wor...