ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,981, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Database resource management using predictive models" was invented by Hong Mei Zhang (Haidian District, China), Shuo Li (Beijing), Xiaobo Wang (Beijing) and Sheng Yan Sun (BeiJing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided to predict connection configurations in a distributed database environment. In embodiments, a method includes: building, by a computing device, a dynamic machine learning predictive model for a first new node connection in a distributed database environment based on configuration data of the first new...