ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,638, issued on March 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Container resource autoscaling by control plane" was invented by Chen Wang (Chappaqua, N.Y.) and Huamin Chen (Westford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to container resource autoscaling by a control plane. According to an aspect, a computer-implemented method includes receiving and intercepting a request from a software application by a proxy, the request for a service provided by a backend service of one or more control plane components. A processing device of the proxy determines, based on the intercepted request, ...