ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,348, issued on June 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Allocating computing resources for deferrable virtual machines" was invented by Yuwen Yang (Bellevue, Wash.), Gurpreet Virdi (Redmond, Wash.), Bo Qiao (Beijing), Hang Dong (Beijing), Karthikeyan Subramanian (Redmond, Wash.), Marko Lalic (Seattle), Shandan Zhou (Kenmore, Wash.), Si Qin (Beijing), Thomas Moscibroda (Bellevue, Wash.) and Yunus Mohammed (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer readable media for predicting surplus capacity on a set of server nodes and determi...