ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,513, issued on May 27.

"Dynamic service level assignment system for data processing manager" was invented by Tim Stonehocker (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Zizo Gowayyed (San Francisco), Seyed Majid Emami (Cupertino, Calif.), Matthias Eichstaedt (San Jose, Calif.), Evelyn Jiang (Cupertino, Calif.), Ryan Berryhill (Toronto), Mathieu Ramona (Cachan, France) and Neil Veira (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system includes a queue manager receiving data processing requests and determining a queue depth representing the number of pending requests. A load supervisor assigns a service level to each request based on the queue d...