ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,126, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dynamic renewable runtime resource management" was invented by David Kalmuk (Markham, Canada), Scott Douglas Walkty (Toronto), Faizan Qazi (Maple, Canada) and Patrick R Perez (Ajax, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method is provided for dynamic renewable runtime resource management in response to flexible resource allocations by a processor. In embodiments, a method includes: calculating, by a processor of a system, a resource consumption value of a first workload by aggregating allocation values of persistent resources...