ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,503, issued on March 24, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Unified resource management architecture for workload schedulers" was invented by Sahan Bamunavita Gamage (San Jose, Calif.), Prashanth Jonathan Victor (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Maarten Wiggers (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects are disclosed for unified resource management for multiple workload schedulers. A resource manager receives a candidate host request from a workload scheduler. The resource manager transmits a set of candidate host snapshots for candidate hosts that match the workload resource requirements. The resource manager...