US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Jan. 13 for "Synchronizing computing resources to proceed with a task" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,272, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Synchronizing computing resources to proceed with a task" was invented by Evan Garrick Jardine-Skinner (Hursley, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example embodiment may include one or more of writing, by a computing resource, an entry to a database, the entry comprising an identifier of the computing resource, an identifier of a cluster with which the computing resource is associated, and a count of computing resources associated with that cluster, monitoring the entry, detecting, based on the monitoring, that the entry inclu...