ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,369, issued on March 31, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Node cache migration" was invented by Shrikant Thakare (Burlington, Mass.), Maxence Weyrich (San Francisco) and Shivakarthik Subramanyam (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to upgrading nodes. A computer system may detect that there is an update to a node image used to deploy a set of nodes managed by the computer system. The computer system may select, for an upgrade process, a first node from the set of nodes that includes a first volume used to store data of applications executing on that first node. The compute...