ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,087, issued on June 24, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"I/O hotspot detection using exponential moving average" was invented by Zhihao Tang (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Lili Chen (Hopkinton, Mass.), Ning Wu (Northborough, Mass.), Hongliang Tang (Hopkinton, Mass.) and Li Wan (Hopkinton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method comprises accessing data stored in memory of the computer system, wherein the memory includes a faster access storage medium and a slower access storage medium; determining respective exponential moving averages of a number of access operations performed on resp...