ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,464, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Autonomous workload homing in a multi-tenant environment" was invented by Ashish A. Pancholi (Cary, N.C.), Bina K. Thakkar (Cary, N.C.) and David C. Waser (Holly Springs, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A methods for identifying a multi-tenant storage array for an application workload includes identifying workload parameters and defining a plurality of groups for each parameter and a plurality of "bins" corresponding to tuples of the groups. Exemplary workload parameters include a percent read parameter and an I/O size parameter. A bin mix of the workl...