ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,258, issued on March 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Distributed system workload management via node autonomy" was invented by Hao Sheng (Ningbo, China), Wen Wang (Beijing), Rong Fu (Ningbo, China), Jian Dong Yin (Beijing), Chuan Qing Yu (Beijing) and Kang Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a memory and a processor in communication with the memory. The processor may be configured to perform operations. The operations may include calculating a priority factor with a node autonomous center in a node and computing a node service capability with the node autonom...