ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,077, issued on July 21, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Computing resource prediction for optimizing resource utilization and computing workload density" was invented by Hagit Grushka (Beer-Sheva, Israel), Rachel Lemberg (Herzliya, Israel), Jeremy Samama (Herzliya, Israel), Eliya Habba (Petah Tikva, Israel) and Yaniv Lavi (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques disclosed herein enable systems to efficiently allocate computing resources for various computing workloads through a shared peak resource usage prediction. To achieve this, a predictive model analyzes a histo...