ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,659, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Managing power for serverless computing" was invented by Jovan Stojkovic (Champaign, Ill.), Hubertus Franke (Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.) and Alper Buyuktosunoglu (White Plains, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments dynamically measure latency for a plurality of functions with a plurality of corresponding frequency levels within a serverless computing cluster; measure a transition latency from an idle state to an active state for the plurality of functions; determine whether a target response time to perform a service level objective (SLO...