ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,999, issued on March 17, was assigned to CLOUDBOLT SOFTWARE INC. (Rockville, Md.).

"Automated rightsizing of containerized application with optimized horizontal scaling" was invented by Bradley Joseph Beam (Olathe, Kan.), Jeremy Michael Gustie (Williston, Vt.), Christopher Marc Larson (McLean, Va.), Thibaut Xavier Perol (Arlington, Va.) and John Daniel Platt (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for rightsizing an application, including analyzing, via processing circuitry, metrics from containers; determining, via the processing circuitry, a resource allocation and a target resource utilization for an application workl...