ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,636, issued on March 3, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Using deployment priorities to implement QoS for service capacity requests in multi-tenant clusters" was invented by Andrey Noskov (Prague).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Instances of a service are deployed at different quality of service (QOS) levels associated with different instance priorities. A manifest for a service specifies a first QoS level associated with a first QoS level priority value. A first deployment object is created for deploying instances of the service at the first QoS level, and is associated with a first combined priori...