ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,827, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Rakuten Symphony Inc. (Tokyo).

"User load simulation" was invented by Ashok Kumar Mishra (San Jose, Calif.) and Ramendra Pratap Singh (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user load specification is received that specifies a number of simulated users, one or more simulated locations of the simulated users, one or more uses (controller or client) of the simulated users, and one or more roles of the simulated users. A user load simulator generates commands from simulated user instances to a computing installation (e.g., cluster), receives response to the commands, and updates states ...