ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,604, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Using a predictive machine learning to determine storage spaces to store items in a storage infrastructure" was invented by Partho Ghosh (Kolkata, India), Venkata Vara Prasad Karri (Visakhapatnam, India), Ramprasad Bhat (Bangalore, India) and Saraswathi Sailaja Perumalla (Visakhapatnam, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for using a predictive machine learning to determine storage spaces to store items in a storage infrastructure. Information on the storage infrastructure indicat...