ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,178, issued on May 26, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Sustainable RAS balancing based on predictive models" was invented by Andrew C. M. Hicks (Highland, N.Y.), Michael E Gildein (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.) and Michael Terrence Cohoon (Fishkill, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and products for sustainable Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) balancing based on predictive models includes predicting, based on one or more predictive models, a potential failure within a computing system, and provisioning, based on the potential failure, one or more redundant resourc...