US Patent Issued to RAKUTEN SYMPHONY on Sept. 8 for "Energy saving through flexible kubernetes pod capacity selection during horizontal pod autoscaling (HPA)" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,424, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to RAKUTEN SYMPHONY INC. (Tokyo).

"Energy saving through flexible kubernetes pod capacity selection during horizontal pod autoscaling (HPA)" was invented by Kexuan Sun (Surrey, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Artificial Intelligent/Machine Learning (AI/ML)-based horizontal pod autoscaler (HPA) receives performance metrics regarding resource allocation and capacity of pods. The current traffic demand is measured and future traffic demand is predicted versus current system capacity. Pod capacity and scaling is selected based on the measured current and predicted future traffic demand...