ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,861, issued on June 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dynamic horizontal autoscaling for multi-tenant service" was invented by Rong Fu (Zhejiang, China), Jian Dong Yin (Beijing), Hao Sheng (Zhejiang, China), Chuan Qing Yu (Beijing), Wen Wang (Beijing) and Kang Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to dynamic horizontal autoscaling for a multi-tenant service. According to an aspect, a computer-implemented method includes configuring a network computing element to route a plurality of requests from two or more clients to a service in a containerized-networked system. ...