ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,556, issued on March 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Active component driven computational server reliability and failure prevention system" was invented by Madhana Sunder (Meridian, Idaho), Christopher Muzzy (Burlington, Vt.), James Mansfield Crafts (Warren, Vt.) and Noah Singer (White Plains, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach for managing and minimized failure of one or more devices in a computerized cluster and/or vehicle infrastructure is disclosed. The proactive approach for mitigating such black swan events as it relate to hardware failures (e.g., servers, network, vehic...