ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,578, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Infrastructure managed workload distribution" was invented by Francesc Guim Bernat (Barcelona, Spain), Karthik Kumar (Chandler, Ariz.), Alexander Bachmutsky (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Marcos E. Carranza (Portland, Ore.) and Rita H. Wouhaybi (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and techniques for infrastructure managed workload distribution are described herein. An infrastructure processing unit (IPU) receives a workload that includes a workload definition. The workload definition includes stages of the workload and a performance expectation. The IP...