ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,227, issued on June 9, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"System and method for fast application auto-scaling" was invented by Nirmal Parekh (Glen Allen, Va.), Zachary Abrahamson (Moseley, Va.), Mahesh Veerabathiran (Henrico, Va.), Sathish Gampa (Plano, Texas) and Steven Pearson (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resource management system is disclosed herein that quickly and dynamically tailors application resource provisioning to real-time application resource consumption. The resource management system may service application requests using resources selected from a pool of servers, the pool of ser...