ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,308, issued on June 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Workload aware exerciser device placement" was invented by Michael Romain (Beacon, N.Y.), Lucas Dane LaLima (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Michael Greene (Austin, Texas), Alper Buyuktosunoglu (White Plains, N.Y.), Christopher Joseph Berry (Red Hook, N.Y.), Pawel Owczarczyk (Highland, N.Y.), Mark Cichanowski (Hutto, Texas), William V. Huott (Holmes, N.Y.), Ofer Geva (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Jesse Peter Surprise (Highland, N.Y.) and Eduard Herkel (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include exerciser device placement in the deve...