ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,289, issued on April 14, was assigned to JPMORGAN CHASE BANK N.A. (New York).

"Systems and methods for preventing gray failures in cloud applications" was invented by Ashish Lamichhane (Glen Mills, Pa.), Kiran Sekharamahanthi (Newark, Del.), Allie Pistolessi (Newark, Del.) and Robert Huarcaya Lazaro (Wilmington, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include: a listener application receiving a health status of cloud applications in cloud pools, each cloud pool hosted by cloud hardware; the listener application receiving a maintenance schedule comprising a plurality of maintenance events for the cloud application and/or the...