ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,502, issued on March 24, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Virtual machine management in data centers" was invented by Andrew Currid (Alameda, Calif.), Anshul Fadnavis (San Jose, Calif.), Chenghuan Jia (Fremont, Calif.) and Ankit Agrawal (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to determine metrics for paths connecting hardware components, select a plurality of groups of the hardware components based at least in part on the metrics, and perform at least a portion of a workload using a selected group of the plurality of groups."

The patent was filed on Nov. 1, 2022, und...