ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,531, issued on May 6, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Intelligent auto-scaling of components providing data protection services within a clustered environment" was invented by Ajey Godbole (Pune, India) and Poornima Gupte (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods (and systems) described herein provide a specialized technique for automatically scaling resources that provide data protection services to client systems. In some embodiments, the resource units (or pods) may be deployed on a platform (e.g., platform-as-a-service, or PaaS), which provides containerized services (and workloads) as part of a c...