ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,435, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Failure detection and recovery techniques for converged network adaptors" was invented by Brijesh Singh (Mercer Island, Wash.) and Eden Adogla (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques discussed herein relate to monitoring and/or detecting destabilization events of a host machine of a cloud computing environment. At least some of these destabilization events can be associated with a converged network adaptor of the host machine. The converged network adaptor may include a combination of functionality of a host network interface card...