US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 22 for "Automatic node fungibility between compute and infrastructure nodes in edge zones" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,322, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Automatic node fungibility between compute and infrastructure nodes in edge zones" was invented by Alphonse Kurian (Bellevue, Wash.), Chandrasekhar Pasupuleti (Issaquah, Wash.), Arpan Kumar Asthana (Bothell, Wash.), PushpRaj Agrawal Jr. (Redmond, Wash.) and Humayun Mukhtar Khan (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cloud-computing system dynamically manages allocation of infrastructure nodes and compute nodes in an edge zone of the cloud-computing system. The edge zone begins with a first number of infrastructure nodes and a se...