ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,024, issued on June 23, was assigned to Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Decentralized scheduler of computation jobs for unstable network of heterogenous nodes" was invented by Alexander Shilov (Weatogue, Conn.), Massimiliano L. Chiodo (Oakland, Calif.), Franklin R. Tanner (Leesburg, Va.) and Trevor D. Davis (Melissa, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decentralized scheduler node for an unstable network of heterogenous nodes collects status information including a resource capacity of each of a network of nodes with which it is in communication. For each current computation job in its input queue, the scheduler node...