ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,268, issued on July 29, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Hybrid computing system management" was invented by Xin Zheng (Beijing), Ting Xie (Beijing), Wen Hua Sun (Beijing), Jing Zhao (Beijing), Guan Jun Liu (Beijing), XiaoWan Lu (Beijing) and Xin Peng Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a system and a computer program product for hybrid computing system management are proposed. In the method, workload information associated with a set of application server instances running in a first computing system is obtained by a server controller in response to a scaling request for changi...