ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,433, issued on March 24, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Node health prediction based on failure issues experienced prior to deployment in a cloud computing system" was invented by Sanjay Ramanujan (Issaquah, Wash.), Luke Rafael Rodriguez (Seattle), Muhammad Khizar Qazi (Seattle), Aleksandr Mikhailovich Gershaft (Redmond, Wash.), Marwan Elias Jubran (Kirkland, Wash.) and Saurabh Agarwal (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To improve the reliability of nodes that are utilized by a cloud computing provider, information about the entire lifecycle of nodes can be collected and used to pre...