ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,137, issued on April 29, was assigned to BMC Software Inc. (Houston).

"Performance prediction using dynamic model correlation" was invented by Nigel Slinger (Los Gatos, Calif.), Wenjie Zhu (Dublin), Roxanne Kallman (Ham Lake, Minn.), Catherine Drummond (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and John Flournoy (Lago Vista, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data stream of performance metrics characterizing a technology landscape may be received. From a plurality of performance prediction models and based on the performance metrics, a subset of performance prediction models may be selected. The subset of performance prediction models may be combined ...