ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,950, issued on March 18, was assigned to VMWare LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Dynamically updating load balancing criteria" was invented by Saurav Suri (Bangalore, India), Sambit Kumar Das (Hayward, Calif.), Shyam Sundar Govindaraj (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Sumit Kalra (Gurugram, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a method of performing load balancing for a group of machines that are distributed across several physical sites. The method of some embodiments iteratively computes (1) first and second sets of load values respectively for first and second sets of machines that are respectively located at first and ...