US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 10 for "Artificial intelligence (AI) based sustainability aware load balancing in a hybrid cloud context" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,624, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Artificial intelligence (AI) based sustainability aware load balancing in a hybrid cloud context" was invented by Elton de Souza (Scarborough, Canada), John S. Werner (Fishkill, N.Y.), Sneha Mary Varghese (Fishkill, N.Y.), Kavita Sehgal (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Diane Marie Stamboni (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, and computer program product for load balancing by a sustainability aware load balancer are provided. The load balancer collects power consumption metrics for each server endpoint in a topology....