ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,672, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Node pool cycling with boot volume replacement" was invented by Guilin Mei (Bellevue, Wash.), Bhagyashree Shetty (Seattle), Venkata Vasishta Chemudupati (Issaquah, Wash.), Mickey Rocket Boxell (Chicago) and Tanya Bansal (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques include receiving, from a data store, a first request that comprises a node identifier identifying a node and indicating that a configuration of the node is to be updated to an updated configuration. The techniques include determining whether the configuration is different fr...