ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,639, issued on March 3, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Techniques for auto-tuning compute load resources" was invented by Haining Mo (Kenmore, Wash.), Qiang Wang (Bellevue, Wash.) and Travis John Portz (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for automated and dynamic compute resource allocation in an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) environment. A system may determine a load threshold value corresponding to a maximum throughput of allocated resources and an active load of processing occurring at those resources. The threshold and load are compared to determine if throt...