ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,911, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Characterizing a computerized system based on clusters of key performance indicators" was invented by Mircea R. Gusat (Langnau am Albis, Switzerland), Lili Lyubchova Georgieva (Sofia, Bulgaria), Serge Monney (Pully, Switzerland) and Roman Alexander Pletka (Uster, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is directed to characterizing a computerized system based on key performance indicators (KPIs). Channel the KPIs through n buffer channels, where nless than=2. The KPIs are channeled by: accessing KPIs; clustering the KPIs ac...