ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,254, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Citibank N.A. (New York).

"Systems and methods for dynamic management of a plurality of resources across computer networks using synthetic availabilities" was invented by Ambrish Bansal (New York), Sujay Nanjashetty (London), John Oladapo Olalowo Olatunji (London), Diego Miyake Dos Santos (Tampa, Fla.), Rodolphe De Lassus Saint-Genies (New York) and Ryan Rhea Rugg (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for managing resources across a global and/or cloud network. In particular, systems and methods for mitigating issues related to providing services while resources are offline...