ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,329, issued on July 7.

"Task allocation in a cloud environment" was invented by Manbinder Pal Singh (Coral Springs, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, an example methodology implementing the disclosed techniques includes, by a computing device, determining an average time to finish for a first task to be executed and determining whether there is a resource instance that is designated to service tasks whose average time to finish matches the average time to finish for the first task. The method also includes, responsive to a determination that there is a resource instance that is designated to service tasks whose averag...