ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,509, issued on March 24, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Automatic rebalancing of container-based services for high availability" was invented by Kumar Deepak Syam Kallakuri (Fremont, Calif.) and Malcolm Featonby (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for enabling a container service of a cloud provider network to detect imbalances of container placements across a selected set of availability zones (AZs) and to automatically rebalance placement of the containers, if needed. An actual distribution of containers may differ from an expected distribution according to a configured p...