ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,735, issued on May 12, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Proactive resource provisioning in large-scale cloud service with intelligent pooling" was invented by Yiwen Zhu (Bellevue, Wash.), Alex Yeo (Redmond, Wash.), Harsha Nihanth Nagulapalli (Redmond, Wash.), Sumeet Khushalani (Kenmore, Wash.), Arijit Tarafdar (Sammamish, Wash.), Subramaniam Venkatraman Krishnan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Deepak Ravikumar (West Lafayette, Ind.), Andrew Francis Fogarty (New York), Steve D Suh (Woodinville, Wash.), Yoonjae Park (Redmond, Wash.), Niharika Dutta (Redmond, Wash.) and Santhosh Kumar Ravindran (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U...