ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,711, issued on July 14, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Autonomic control plane scaling in a container orchestration cluster" was invented by Prateek Gogia (Leander, Texas) and Nathan John Herz (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented techniques for autonomic control plane scaling in a container orchestration cluster. The techniques include a method that involves managing a container orchestration cluster's control plane. When a control plane instance is underutilized, it handles control plane requests and monitors its resource usage. If it becomes overutilized (hot state), it identifies anoth...