US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 15 for "Process pooling for application services" (Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,241, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Process pooling for application services" was invented by Emily Katherine Andrews (Celina, Texas), Michael J. Ens (Redmond, Wash.), Andrew J. Ritz (Sammamish, Wash.), Javier N. Flores Assad (Bothell, Wash.), Stefan F. Smolen (Bellevue, Wash.), Clifford M. Smolinsky (Snoqualmie, Wash.), Matthew E. Porter (Seattle) and Johnathan Norman (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to process pooling for application services. In examples, a pool of utility processes is maintained, such that a preexisting uti...