ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,773, issued on July 14, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Simulated space remote partition reassignment and worker autoscaling" was invented by Christopher Denis Scalabrini (Kirkland, Wash.) and Adam Julio Villalobos (Mountlake Terrace, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automated scaling-related operations may be performed dynamically during execution of a spatial simulation. A spatial partition may be locally reassigned, based on application workload information, from a first application to a second application on the same worker. A quantity of applications on a worker may also be changed during execution of a ...