ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,282, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to CAPITAL ONE SERVICES LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for choosing an appropriate scaling technique for allocating computational resources to distributed applications" was invented by Manideep Kantamneni (Glen Allen, Va.), Tariq Bhatti (Richmond, Va.), Jayasri Chadalavada (Vienna, Va.) and Shantanu Mantri (Marietta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including: one or more processors; a memory storing computer program code that controls the one or more processors to: receive usage metrics associated with a first application; determine whether the first application comprises a cy...