ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,059, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Workload pattern detection" was invented by Loic Fura (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Chon N. Lei (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Joseph Gentile (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.), Jayapreetha Natesan (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.), Abuchi Obiegbu (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Olayinka Adesanya (Fishkill, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computer system are provided. A processor retrieves instructions for a plurality of processes. A processor generates a sample of the instructions for the plurality of processes. A proce...