ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,283, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Adding and/or removing nodes from clustered filesystems" was invented by Sasikanth Eda (Vijayawada, India), Kuei-Yu Wang-Knop (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Felipe Knop (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Frank Schmuck (Campbell, Calif.) and Muthu Annamalai Muthiah (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, according to one approach, includes: receiving a request to create a new node in a clustered filesystem. In response to receiving the request, a copy of details is retrieved, the copy of details being associated with an estab...