ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,575, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for scheduling resources of distributed systems to perform workloads" was invented by John A. Lockman III (Granite Shoals, Texas) and Dharmesh M. Patel (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for performing workloads are disclosed. The workloads may be distributed across any number of processing elements for performance. The processing elements may be supported by communication elements. The operation of the communication elements may impact the rate at which the processing elements are able to complete the w...