ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,403, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Computer-implemented method and corresponding system for optimizing resource consumption of one or more operations of transaction and/or idle time within a cloud computing system" was invented by Christian Korner (Bergen, Germany) and Matthias Saft (Olching, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, including: analyzing transaction logs of the cloud computing system within a predefined period of time to derive various transaction types with pre-defined behavioral and time attributes of the logged operations of transaction; forming at least one transaction class by c...