ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,097, issued on April 29, was assigned to BMC Helix Inc. (Houston).

"Resource tuning with usage forecasting" was invented by Yaron Front (Kiryat Motzkin, Israel), Michele De Stefano (Soncino, Italy), Marco Bertoli (Trecate, Italy), Jeyashree Sivasubramanian (Framingham, Mass.), Komal Padmawar (Pune, India) and Nir Yavin (Kfar Szold, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described techniques determine performance metric values of a performance metric characterizing a performance of a system resource of an information technology (IT) system, and determine driver metric values of a driver metric characterizing an occurrence of an event th...