ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,660, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Resource availability-based workflow execution timing determination" was invented by Yannick Saillet (Stuttgart, Germany) and Namit Kabra (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to a computer-implemented method, an available amount of each of multiple computing resources is determined by machine logic over a period of time at a computing device. The machine logic also determines an expected usage of each computing resource to execute each workflow in a queue. The machine logic also determines a time of execution of each w...