ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,666, issued on July 15, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Microservices server and storage resource controller" was invented by Paul McSweeney (Silversprings, Ireland), Fearghal O'Maolcatha (Middleton, Ireland) and Elaine Holland (Crookstown, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to controlling resource consumption of a server and storage array. In embodiments, a request can be received by a server that is communicatively coupled to a storage array. Further, the services required to process the request can be identified. Additionally, services' activation can be controlle...