ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,476, issued on June 2, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Workload elasticity" was invented by Sharad Agarwal (Seattle), Sanjeev Mehrotra (Kirkkland, Wash.) and Ganesh Ananthanarayanan (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computing resources are managed in a computing environment comprising a computing service provider and an edge computing network. The edge computing network comprises computing and storage devices configured to extend computing resources of the computing service provider to remote users of the computing service provider. The edge computing network collects capacity and u...