ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,368, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Automated fault set configuration for distributed storage systems" was invented by Jayanth Lakshminarayana (Bangalore, India), Pramod Kumar Puthanveettil Kurungodan (Bengaluru, India) and Peniel Charles (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises at least one processing device configured to identifying nodes of a distributed storage system and power distribution units in an information technology infrastructure environment, and to generate a mapping data structure of mapping identifying power outlets of the power distribution unit...