ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,604, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Modification of cluster configuration settings using machine learning" was invented by Brian Gallagher (Waterford, Ireland) and Cathal O'Connor (Waterford, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can be provided for modifying cluster configuration settings using machine learning. For example, the system can determine a numerical value representative of a configuration setting at an active computing cluster. The system can further compute a set of similarity scores using the numerical value. Each similarity score in the set of similar scores can be indicati...