ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,498, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Workflow data redistribution in hybrid public/private computing environments" was invented by Zhi Li Guan (Beijing), Peng Hui Jiang (Beijing), Kun Yang (Beijing), Jun Su (Beijing), Bu Feng Hou (Beijing) and Cheng Wu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms are provided for workflow data redistribution in a hybrid computing environment comprising a private portion and a public portion of the hybrid computing environment. A received user request, that is serviced by a workflow executed by one or more computing devices of the hybrid co...