ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,862, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Configuration and optimization of a source of computerized resources" was invented by Malgorzata Lazuka (Zurich), Thomas Parnell (Zurich), Andreea Anghel (Adliswil, Switzerland) and Charalampos Pozidis (Thalwil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is notably directed to a computer-implemented method, which aims at jointly identifying an optimal source of computerized resources and optimizing a configuration of the computerized resources. The method comprises configuring a Best-Arm Identification algorithm, in order to (i)...