US Patent Issued to Zendesk on Jan. 13 for "Operating a distributed worker pool to conserve computing resources" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,275, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Zendesk Inc. (San Francisco).

"Operating a distributed worker pool to conserve computing resources" was invented by Zhi Wei Mervyn Chng (San Francisco), Vatsal B. Sevak (Brentwood, Calif.), Joshua J. Teitelbaum (San Francisco), Gary Steven Grossman (San Francisco) and Gabriel Martin-Dempesy (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for operating a pool of workers within a distributed computing system, wherein each of multiple computers host one or more workers. Each computer also hosts ledgers for one or more originators of tasks that are submitted to the po...