US Patent Issued to Nutanix on March 3 for "Scalable leadership election in a multi-processing computing environment" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,160, issued on March 3, was assigned to Nutanix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Scalable leadership election in a multi-processing computing environment" was invented by Karan Gupta (San Jose, Calif.), Pavan Kumar Konka (Milpitas, Calif.), Parthasarathy Ramachandran (Palo Alto, Calif.), Arun Olappamanna Vasudevan (Kirkland, Wash.) and Andrey Alexseyevich Pyatkov (Seattle, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scalable multi-cluster resource sharing facility. A global witness process runs on a first computing platform that communicates over one or more networks to any number of nodes situated over two or more clusters. The global witness ...