US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 14 for "Workload management based on a proximity to bodies of water and land" (Indian, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,194, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Workload management based on a proximity to bodies of water and land" was invented by Gandhi Sivakumar (Bentleigh, Australia), Kushal S. Patel (Pune, India) and Sarvesh S. Patel (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes generating a temporal mapping of positions of a first satellite with respect to predetermined portions of land of Earth and predetermined bodies of water of the Earth. The method further includes determining, based on the temporal mapping, a first job for...