ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,581, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Container quantity adjustment for application" was invented by Yun Hu (Hangzhou, China), Lei Lei (Hangzhou, China) and Yangfei Zheng (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations of methods and apparatuses for container quantity adjustment are disclosed. In an implementation, a method includes: determining historical data of an application, predicting traffic distribution of the application within a predetermined duration based on the historical data by using a pre-trained traffic prediction model, predict...