ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,851, issued on June 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Workload performance improvement on heterogeneous systems" was invented by Sheng Yan Sun (Beijing), Xu Qin Zhao (Beijing), Jian Xu (Beijing) and Peng Hui Jiang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer implemented methods, systems, and computer program products include program code executing on a processor(s) to: obtain queries (each query including workload(s)); obtain execution statistics for the one or more workloads; normalize one or more queries. Normalizing includes generating cost analytics, identifying similar cost analytics ...