ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,395, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Kyndryl Inc. (New York).

"System to infer longevity of cloud computing resource usage and rank in order of importance" was invented by Keri Wheatley (Sevierville, Tenn.), Mouleswara Reddy Chintakunta (Allagadda, India) and Omar Odibat (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is disclosed that creates a network graph that identifies computing resources as nodes. Each of the computing resources is weighted based upon the corresponding resource's attributes and usage. The approach connects a first set of nodes as directly connected and a second set of nodes as indirectly conne...