ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,136, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamic classification and optimization of computing resource utilization" was invented by Vikas Nigam (Bangalore, India), Chandan Abhishek (Jharkhand, India) and Rahul Bandari (Telangana, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a process: monitors an access pattern of database objects on a user-connection basis; calculates a wait-time metric for database sessions for the objects; classifies a first number of often-used objects and a second number of not-recently-used objects; classifies the wait-time metric for the database sessions as...