ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,923, issued on July 8, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method and system for managing a distributed multi-tiered computing environment based on load predictions" was invented by William Jeffery White (Plano, Texas) and Said Tabet (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein relate to a method for managing a distributed multi-tiered computing (DMC) environment. The method includes identifying, by a global controller, a load management prediction event; in response to identifying the load management prediction event: obtaining offline data from local controllers associated with a plura...