ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,294, issued on May 19, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Service scheduling using static and dynamic service affinities" was invented by Xi Qing Zhang (Beijing), Xing Xing Shen (Beijing), Shao Fei Li (Beijing), Ji Dong Li (Beijing), Peng Hui Jiang (Beijing), Jia Tian Zhong (Beijing), Jia Yu (Beijing) and Dong Hui Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, a system, and a computer program product for service delivery are disclosed. In the method, a static analysis can be performed on a plurality of services to be deployed in an environment comprising a plurality of no...