ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,036, issued on June 30, was assigned to ThoughtSpot Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Identifying cluster idleness for cluster shutdown" was invented by Sunil Gupta (Cupertino, Calif.), Tushar Mahale (Milpitas, Calif.), Nickolas Klue (Pinole, Calif.), Prashant Gupta (Mountlake Terrace, Wash.), Pratik Baniya (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and Rong Shen (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shutdown criterion is determined to be met with respect to a cluster. Responsive to determining that the shutdown criterion is met, a request router is configured to route requests addressed to the cluster to a destination that indicates that the c...