ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,006, issued on March 17, was assigned to JPMORGAN CHASE BANK N.A. (New York).

"Systems and methods for universal auto-scaling" was invented by Sudhan Arputharaj (Singapore) and Srinu Dasari (Euless, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for universal auto-scaling are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method may include: (1) monitoring, by an auto-scale computer program executed by a computer processor, a utilization level at each of a plurality of data layers in a data pod, wherein each data layer comprises at least one node; (2) comparing, by the auto-scale computer program, each of the utilization levels to a thre...