ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,720, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Cross-cluster load balancer" was invented by Lei Lu (Campbell, Calif.), Varun S Lingaraju (San Jose, Calif.), Zhelong Pan (Cupertino, Calif.), Rajesh Venkatasubramanian (San Jose, Calif.), Sahan Bamunavita Gamage (San Jose, Calif.), Charan Krishna Singh (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Bing Hu (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Xiaoyuan Lu (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples are disclosed for performing cross-cluster load balancing. In some aspects, a workload is selected for cross-cluster migration. A destination cluster is identified for a migration of...