ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,486, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Optimizing network bandwidth availability" was invented by Sudheesh S. Kairali (Kozhikode, India), Satyam Jakkula (Bengaluru, India), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India) and Sudhanshu Sekher Sar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect, a computer-implemented method includes identifying applications in a network environment that perform periodic data extraction and data transmission operations and identifying a frequency and a data transmission load for each of the operations. Aspects also include predicting ...