ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,508, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Cloud resources allocation system" was invented by Ashish Kumar (McLean, Va.), Kishan Patel (Arlington, Va.), Travis Hughes (Fredericksburg, Va.), Mathew Verghese (Great Falls, Va.), Saugata Mondal (Falls Church, Va.) and Pradeep Khandelwal (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are various embodiments for a cloud resources allocation system. An embodiment operates by determining that an application requests a plurality of instances to execute across one or more processors of a cloud services platform. One or more spare instances ar...