ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,266, issued on March 25, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Compute load balancing in a distributed environment" was invented by Alan Pearson (Seattle) and Yaou Wei (Kirkland, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of balancing data storage among a plurality of groups of computing devices, each group comprising one or more respective computing devices. The method may involve determining a compute utilization disparity between the group having a highest level of compute utilization and the group having a lowest level of compute utilization, determining a transfer of one or more projects between the...