ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,408, issued on July 29, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Reorganization of a data set" was invented by David C. Reed (Tucson, Ariz.), Ryan Arthur Bouchard (Tucson, Ariz.), Michael R. Scott (Ocean View, Hawaii) and Parker Mathewson (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method (CIM), according to one embodiment, includes performing a reorganization analysis for mitigating latency during reorganization of a data set. The reorganization analysis includes using regression analysis to predict a time duration that reorganization of the data set will take based on a total size of ...