ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,591, issued on April 7, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Performance benchmarking and characterization for cloud and bare metal systems" was invented by Max Alt (San Francisco) and Paulo Roberto Pereira De Souza filho (Maringa, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for benchmarking the performance of computing resources in a distributed computing system is disclosed. The system may comprise a performance database, a training program, and a machine learning engine. The training program may be configured to create a training data set by running a plurality of workloads multiple tim...