ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,155, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Multi-layer forecasting of computational workloads" was invented by Antony Stephen Higginson (Cheshire, Great Britain), Octavian Arsene (Bucharest, Romania), Mihaela Dediu (Manchester, Great Britain) and Thomas Elders (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for multi-layer forecasting of computational workloads are disclosed. A system identifies a level of granularity associated with a request to forecast a computational workload for a particular entity. The system obtains attribute data of computational resources at the specifie...