ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,494, issued on March 24, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method and system for performing domain level scheduling of an application in a distributed multi-tiered computing environment using heuristic scheduling" was invented by William Jeffery White (Plano, Texas) and Said Tabet (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein relate to a method for managing a distributed multi-tiered computing (DMC) environment. The method includes normalizing, by a local controller associated with an DMC domain, task resource demand dimensions for each task associated with a scheduling job; summing t...