ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,615, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Predicting worker instance count for cloud-based computing platforms" was invented by Neha Keshari (Bothell, Wash.), Abhisek Pan (Bellevue, Wash.), David Allen Dion (Bothell, Wash.), Brendon Machado (Seattle), Karthik Subramaniam Hariharan (Seattle), Karthikeyan Subramanian (Redmond, Wash.), Thomas Moscibroda (Bellevue, Wash.) and Karel Trueba Nobregas (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are examples for recommending increase in worker instance count for an availability zone in a cloud-based computing platform. A machi...