ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,435, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Automated data center expansion" was invented by Jehuda Shemer (Kfar Saba, Israel), Valerie Lotosh (Ramat-Gan, Israel) and Erez Sharvit (Ramat-Gan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can determine timeseries telemetry data of a first resource utilization of a data center maintained by the system. The system can predict, from the timeseries telemetry data, a second resource utilization of the data center will occur at a future time, the second resource utilization exceeding a threshold amount of resource utilization of the data center. ...