ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,877, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dynamic storage tiering based on application demands" was invented by Gang Lyu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method (CIM), according to one embodiment, includes obtaining application data associated with interaction of applications of host servers that use a data storage system and using the application data to predict performance requirements for the applications with respect to the data storage system. The method further includes maintaining a persistent control repository having parameter fields. A first...