ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,799, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Cold-start service placement over on-demand resources" was invented by Venkatesan Thirumalai Chakaravarthy (Bangalore, India), Ashok Pon Kumar Sree Prakash (Bangalore, India), Saritha Vinod (Bangalore, India) and Yogish Sabharwal (Gurgaon, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer program products for cold-start service placement over on-demand resources are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes obtaining a performance requirement profile comprising performance requirements of a service that vary ov...