ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,231, issued on July 29, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"Gradual optimization of compute platforms for a workload" was invented by Hamrit Sidhu (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for an optimization service to gradually host workloads of users on more optimized virtual machine (VM) instance types to allow users to gain confidence in recommendations provided by the optimization service. The techniques include providing users with a recommended order of VM instance types that gradually move from a current VM instance type towards more optimal VM instance types. The recommended order may initially rec...