ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,768, issued on July 14, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Resource optimized load balancing of microservice requests" was invented by Hao Sheng (Ningbo, China), Rong Fu (Ningbo, China), Pan Li (Beijing), Xiao Lin Sun (Ningbo, China), Yao Chen (Beijing) and Qing Yuan Meng (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Resource optimized forwarding of classified requests to different instances of a microservice is provided. The process includes obtaining classified requests to a microservice. The classified requests are classified based on different microservice resource consumption types. Further, the met...