US Patent Issued to VMware on May 5 for "Elastic scaling of software-defined distributed load balancers across clouds" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,242, issued on May 5, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Elastic scaling of software-defined distributed load balancers across clouds" was invented by Aman Chauhan (San Jose, Calif.), Srinivasa Srikanth Podila (Bangalore, India), Lakshmana Murthy Mantha (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Vivek Kalyanaraman (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of performing a scaling operation for a distributed load balancer in a multi-cloud system includes: initiating, by a controller of the distributed load balancer, a scaling operation targeting a plurality of clouds in the multi-cloud system; determining, by the con...