US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on March 18 for "Techniques for excess resource utilization" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,832, issued on March 18, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Techniques for excess resource utilization" was invented by Eric K. Barnum (Midlothian, Va.) and Bryan Pinos (Williamsburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques to utilize excess resources in a cloud system, such as by enabling an auxiliary resource utilizer to use resources while they are not needed to support primary resource utilizers, are described herein. Some embodiments are directed to identifying and allocating excess capacity of resources in a cloud system to auxiliary resource utilizers based on one or more policies. In various embod...