ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,338, issued on July 7, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dynamic assignment of device queues to virtual functions to provide to virtual machines" was invented by Bharat Sukhwani (Sudbury, Mass.), Martin Ohmacht (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Hubertus Franke (Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.), Sameh Asaad (Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.), Scott Smith (Brighton, Mich.) and Deming Chen (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a computer product, system, and method for dynamic assignment of device queues to virtual functions to provide to virtual machines. Queues are assigned to a virtual function to acces...