ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,081, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Intelligently scaling database as a service resources in a cloud platform" was invented by Peng Hui Jiang (Beijing), Yue Wang (Beijing), Jun Su (Beijing), Su Liu (Austin, Texas) and Sheng Yan Sun (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for scaling a resource of a Database as a Service (DBaaS) cluster in a cloud platform. User service requests from a service cluster to be processed by the DBaaS cluster are received. A first set of tracing data is generated by a service mesh, ...