ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,264, issued on May 19, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Fast service initialization using remote memory" was invented by Xiangping Chen (Sherborn, Mass.), William Price Dawkins (Lakeway, Texas), Walter Aldrich O'Brien III (Westborough, Mass.) and Xunce Zhou (Harvard, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for fast service initialization. The method includes: following deployment of a composed service on a composed service host and the composed service host thereafter experiencing an event impacting the composed service: loading a modified service initialization routine for the composed service; discovering...