ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,438, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Preventing scheduling or executing a resource on an inconsistent host node" was invented by Siva Subramaniam Manickam (Karnataka, India), Vinnarasu Ganesan (Karnataka, India), Thavamaniraja Sakthivel (Karnataka, India) and Balaji Ramamoorthi (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples relate to preventing scheduling or executing a resource on an inconsistent host node in a networked system. Some examples track a taint status of the host node and identify whether the host node is inconsistent based on the taint status of t...