ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,171, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NBCUniversal Media LLC (New York).

"Systems and methods for determining optimal cluster options for cloud-based data processing job from a set of machine configurations" was invented by David Mellor (Lynnfield, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tangible, non-transitory, machine-readable medium, comprising machine-readable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to determine an optimal cluster option for a data processing job from a set of machine configurations, wherein the optimal cluster option comprises an optimal configuration and a ...