ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,004, issued on March 17, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Capacity planning and scaling of service-oriented applications implemented using multi-tenant resources" was invented by Vikash Kumar (Ranchi, India), Ashok Chitta (Hyderabad, India) and Manoj Bhagwan Jadhav (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request to perform scalability analysis of a constituent service of an application at a first deployment environment is received. The constituent service is deployed to a plurality of host groups of the deployment environment. A data set which indicates a collection of front end request routers configure...