ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,521, issued on March 24, was assigned to VMware Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Degraded availability zone remediation for multi-availability zone clusters of host computers" was invented by Piyush Parmar (Bangalore, India), Pawan Saxena (Palo Alto, Calif.), Gabriel Tarasuk-Levin (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Dhaval Shah (Bangalore, India) and Umesha Margi (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and computer-implemented method for managing multi-availability zone (AZ) clusters of host computers in a cloud computing environment automatically detects a degraded state of a first AZ in the cloud computing environment based on host fai...