ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,855, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Replacing stale clusters in a cluster pool" was invented by Eric Fried (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for replacing stale clusters in a cluster pool. An example method includes changing a configuration status of a resource pool managed by a resource pool manager from a first configuration to a second configuration. The resource pool may comprise a plurality of clusters. A portion of the plurality of clusters may be configured according to the first configuration and may store a first hash encoding configuration fields...