ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,146, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Multi-device processing activity allocation" was invented by Venkata Vara Prasad Karri (Visakhapatnam, India), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India), Sowjanya Rao (Hyderabad, India), Shailendra Moyal (Pune, India) and Akash U. Dhoot (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Allocating processing activities among multiple computing devices can include identifying multiple computing activities of a computer-executable process and, for each computing activity identified, estimating in real time the computing resources needed. The identifyin...