ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,148, issued on May 26, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Centralized log visualization for analysis debugging in cluster networks" was invented by Vishal Tiwary (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Philip Shilane (Newtown, Pa.) and Shiv Prasad Verma (Bangalore, India).

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 and to debug and perform other serviceability tasks provided by a vendor of the cluster system. Logs are collected from all components of the system and aggregated into a consistent format...