ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,280, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Utilizing machine learning to proactively scale cloud instances in a cloud computing environment" was invented by Ravi Kiran Palamari (Frisco, Texas), Ragupathi Subburasu (Frisco, Texas) and Mayur Gupta (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device receives, from a cloud computing environment, application usage information associated with application instances in the cloud computing environment for an application, and processes the application usage information, with a machine learning model, to determine behavior patterns and predicted tasks for ...